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Apr 19, 2017 · Abstract. The U.S. Constitution is best understood not as a “social contract,” but as a popularly issued corporate charter. The earliest American colonies were literal corporations of the Crown and, like all corporations, were ruled by limited governments established by their charters. From this, Americans derived their understanding of ...
- David Ciepley
- 2017
Jan 22, 2021 · Did the "Act of 1871" establish the United States as a corporation? No, that's not true: The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 established a new, unified government for Washington, D.C. It "incorporated" that city, a common legal term by which areas are organized for governance by a single entity.
Feb 12, 2024 · That conspiracy theory claims that an 1871 law secretly made the United States a for-profit corporation instead of a government. In a nearly nine-minute long TikTok video, a woman’s voice-over...
- The Claim: Title 28 Says The Us Is A Private, For-Profit Corporation
- Our Rating: False
- Statute refers to Federal Entities That Collect Money
- Federal Corporations Are Created by Congress
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A Jan. 5 Instagram video (direct link, archived link) shows several pages from the book "Meet Your Strawman: And Whatever You Want To Know" as a man reads from it. “The United States Corporation is a private company,” reads a bolded sentence in the book, which also asserts Congress, police and courts are part of that company. A later section of the...
The statute in question does not say the U.S. is a private, for-profit corporation, according to legal experts. Instead, the statute defines what the term “United States” refers to when it is used in one specific section of the U.S. Code describing federal debt collection procedures. This definition lists a “federal corporation” as one of several e...
The code referenced in the post,28 USC § 3002(15), is part of Title 28 of the U.S. Code, which describes the procedures of the judiciary, said Arthur Hellman, professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. The social media user accurately quoted the statute but misinterpreted its meaning. “The first rule for figuring out what a s...
Most companies in the U.S. are created by individuals, but some are created by Congress – entities referred to as federal corporations, said Clark Kelso, a professor at the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law. Examples include Amtrak, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Export-Import Bank. ...
Cornell Law School, accessed March 7, 28 U.S. Code § 3002 - DefinitionsThe Supreme Court has been granting more rights to corporations, including some regarded as those solely for individuals. But Nina Totenberg finds the company-to-person shift has a long history.
United States. (15) “United States” means— (A) a Federal corporation; (B) an agency, department, commission, board, or other entity of the United States; or (C) an instrumentality of the United States.
Jan 17, 2019 · Many people have likely heard a quote attributed to President Calvin Coolidge, “The business of America is business,” but this is a misquote. The real quote is a little bit different and the context in which it was said is not likely what most would expect.
