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From: Robert Wangrud <rwangrud@teleport.com>

To: GeneralAssembly@christiancommonlaw-gov.org

Date: Thursday, March 04, 1999 8:56 AM

Subject: GAsmbly> US-Corporation

>Can you give the word you look this up under? and page No?

>>You said:

>> GeneralAssembly-owner@mail.christiancommonlaw-gov.org

>>from bouvier's 1854

>>#5 The United States of America are a corporation endowed with the

>>capacity to sue and be sued, to convey and receive property. 1 Marsh. Dec.

>>177, 181. But it is proper to observe that no suit can be brought against

>>the United States without authotiy of law.

>>regards

>>ft

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Thu, 4 Mar 1999 15:52:47 +0000

From: "jay rutledge" <noborders@worldnet.att.net>

To: <GeneralAssembly@christiancommonlaw-gov.org>,

"Robert Wangrud" <rwangrud@teleport.com>

Subject: Re: GAsmbly> US-Corporation

Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 10:27:51 -0500

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The name of this country. The United States, now

thirty-one in number, are Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida,

Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland,

Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey,

New York North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina,

Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin, and California.

2. The territory of which these states are composed was at one time

dependent generally on the crown of Great Britain, though governed by the

local legislatures of the country. It is not within the plan of this work to

give a history of the colonies; on this subject the reader is referred to

Kent's Com. sect. 10; Story on the Constitution, Book 1; 8 Wheat. Rep. 543;

Marshall, Hist. Colon.

3. The neglect of the British government to redress grievances which

had been felt by the people, induced the colonies to form a closer connexion

than their former isolated state, in the hopes that by a union they might

procure what they had separately endeavored in vain, to obtain. In 1774,

Massachusetts recommended that a congress of the colonies should be

assembled to deliberate upon the state of public affairs; and on the fourth

of September of the following year, the delegates to such a congress

assembled in Philadelphia. Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts,

New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode

Island, South Carolina, and Virginia, were represented by their delegates;

Georgia alone was not represented. This congress, thus organized, exercised

de facto and de jure, a sovereign authority, not as the delegated agents of

the governments de facto of the colonies, but in virtue of the original

powers derived from the people. This, which was called the revolutionary

government, terminated only when superseded by the confederated government

under the articles of confederation, ratified in 1781. Serg. on the Const.

Intr. 7, 8.

4. The state of alarm and danger in which the colonies then stood

induced the formation of a second congress. The delegates, representing all

the states, met in May, 1775. This congress put the country in a state of

defence, and made provisions for carrying on the war with the mother

country; and for the internal regulations of which they were then in need;

and on the fourth day of July, 1776, adopted and issued the Declaration of

Independence. (q.v.) The articles of confederation, (q.v.) adopted on the

first day of March, 1781, 1 Story on the Const. Sec. 225; 1 Kent's Comm.

211, continued in force until the first Wednesday in March, 1789, when the

present constitution was adopted. 5 Wheat. 420.

5. The United States of America are a corporation endowed with the

capacity to sue and be sued, to convey and receive property. 1 Marsh. Dec.

177, 181. But it is proper to observe that no suit can be brought against

the United States without authority of law.

6. The states, individually, retain all the powers which they possessed

at the formation of the constitution, and which have not been given to

congress. (q.v.)

7. Besides the states which are above enumerated, there are various

territories, (q.v.) which are a species of dependencies of the United

States. New states may be admitted by congress into this union; but no new

state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state,

nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of

states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned, as

well as of congress. Const. art. 4, s. 3. And the United States shall

guaranty to every state in this union, a republican form of government. Id.

art. 4, s. 4. See the names of the several states; and Constitution of the

United States.