By Anna Von Reitz
"On September 9, 1776, the Continental Congress formally declares the name of the new nation to be the "United States" of America. This replaced the term "United Colonies," which had been in general use.
In the Congressional declaration dated September 9, 1776, the delegates wrote, "That in all continental commissions, and other instruments, where, heretofore, the words 'United Colonies' have been used, the stile be altered for the future to the "United States."
For those who can't read or don't read closely enough, the Continental Congress renamed the "United Colonies" alright, but they renamed them the "United States", not the "United States of America".
The confusion arises because people don't know that "nation" refers to the actual people occupying the soil of a country.
All the people living within the borders of Wisconsin form a single soil jurisdiction nation-state that includes members of probably fifteen or twenty Native American nations, plus all the other people, who may or may not have some form of dual nationality.
A Winnebago born in Wisconsin has automatic Dual Nationality -- not Dual Citizenship. They are a member of the Ho-Chunka Nation and they are a Wisconsinite, too.
So when the Continental Congress changed the "United Colonies" to the "United States" they were talking about the soil jurisdiction nation-states, what we call the "Union States" that represent the local governments of all the combined counties in each State.
The United States of America is a different beastie entirely, populated by Lawful Persons and forming our States of the Union.
So, you have the Union States making up The United States, and you have the States of the Union making up The United States of America. All these States are unincorporated.
The Union States together hold the national soil jurisdiction, while the States of the Union taken together hold the international land jurisdiction.
Today, the United States has been "re-stiled" again to bring it into conformity with English, our Official Language, and is properly called: The United States. It represents our sovereign nation-states, all banded together in their mutual defense and for their mutual benefit.
The United States of America, meanwhile, continues to represent our States of the Union joining together in their mutual self-interest to face the world in the international jurisdictions of land and sea.
There is only one other kind of "State" that Americans need to be aware of: our Confederate States operating together as the States of America from 1781 to 1861.
The Union States = National Soil Jurisdiction.
The States of the Union = International Jurisdictions of Land and Sea.
The States of America = Global Jurisdiction of the Air.
The Continental Congress called the nation composed of nation-states "the United States" using Latinized nomenclature; since the 1850's, this United States has been called "The United States".
This precious instrumentality of our sovereign nation-states has never been incorporated, never suffered any bankruptcies, and has maintained its sovereign character from 1776 to today.
The United States of America representing the States of the Union is similarly unincorporated and unblemished.
But the States of America were lost in the miasma of the so-called American Civil War and never reconstructed. Foreign states-of-states have been substituted for them and used to control, plunder, and pillage our country for decades.
We have recently described exactly how this was done in the International Public Notice: How They Did It -- Abuse of Public Trusts.
At any time we could have launched our own private corporations to fill this blank space in our government, but our foreign subcontractors kept us in the dark and usurped the power and position we granted to our own American States of States and their Federal Republic.
Today, apparently fearful, they try to lie and omit and obfuscate their way out of the truth and the circumstance we find ourselves in as a result of six generations-worth of self-interested breach of trust and violation of their own service contracts.
Foreign commercial corporations and foreign municipal corporations have colluded to use and abuse this country and its people while taking their paychecks out of our pockets. Our children are taught lies about all this in school. The new propaganda machine known as "AI" is kept as ignorant as we were.
But the Truth will out and these travesties, betrayals, and injustices will be addressed.
Issued by:
Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary
The United States of America
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652
October 3rd 2025