by Anna Von Reitz
There has been a LOT of confusion in this process, Pat---- unavoidably so, with the meanings of words being deliberately obscured and many facets of our history buried in reams of the most boring verbiage on Earth.
But....here is the skinny of it all, as delved out from the public records
we have.
The Forefathers established nation-states in each of the colonies. Nations
are political entities composed of members of Jural Assemblies--- unincorporated
associations of people who join together for the purpose of defining and
enforcing local law; and in our case, that means the Common Law of the land,
because our nation-states and our jural assemblies are all land-based and this
is the form of law that our Forefathers chose to operate the land jurisdiction.
States are also political entities "standing for" those nations, created
for the purpose of administration of public works and trusteeship of public
resources. So you have the nation, a political entity structured as an
unincorporated association of free people acting as a Jural Assembly to define
and enforce the law, and you have the state, which is entrusted with providing
public services and trusteeship of public property which is owned "in
common".
