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Example illustration of a sovereign citizen homemade license plate. The sovereign citizen movement (also SovCit movement or SovCits) [1] is a loose group of anti-government activists, vexatious litigants, tax protesters, financial scammers, and conspiracy theorists found mainly in English-speaking common law countries—the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
A sovereign citizen and tax protester, Elvick was already the primary originator of the redemption movement. The strawman theory overlapped with those of the redemption movement: it eventually became a core concept of sovereign citizen ideology, as it connected their pseudolegal beliefs through an overarching explanation. [2]
The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies Moorish sovereign citizens as an extremist anti-government group. [3] [9] Tactics used by the group include filing false deeds and property claims, [10] false liens against government officials, frivolous legal motions to overwhelm courts, and invented legalese used in court appearances and filings. [2]
The Sovereign Citizen movement is a disparate collection of thousands, if not tens of thousands, of anti-government radicals who believe they're not subject to local or national laws or authority.
However, Justice David Souter, writing for a four-Justice dissent in Alden, said the states surrendered their sovereign immunity when they ratified the Constitution. He read the amendment's text as reflecting a narrow form of sovereign immunity that limited only the diversity jurisdiction of the federal courts.
Sovereignty itself is, of course, not subject to law, for it is the author and source of law; but, in our system, while sovereign powers are delegated to the agencies of government, sovereignty itself remains with the people, by whom and for whom all government exists and acts. And the law is the definition and limitation of power.
“Attention sovereign citizens: In Florida, the law is real, and deputies really will enforce it,” the sheriff’s office wrote. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. In Other News.
Markese Lampley renounced the law when he represented self and was convicted of killing Alex Cavanah in 2020. Lampley is embracing law on appeal. 'Sovereign citizen' who decried law gets hearing ...