THE UNITED KINGDOM ~ The Body Politic:

The "United Kingdom" is not a piece of land. It is not the soil of England, Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland. It is a body politic — a legal construct, a corporation, an artificial entity created by law. A fiction.

Just as a "person" on a birth certificate is an ens legis — a being of the law, a creature of the registry — so too is the "United Kingdom" itself an ens legis at a larger scale. It exists on paper, in statute, in legal instruments. It is not the living men and women who inhabit the land. It is a system overlaid upon them.

Citizenship as Franchise:

When a man or woman becomes a "citizen" of that body politic, they enter into a commercial relationship with the fiction. They become:

- A franchisee — granted certain privileges and benefits in exchange for obligations
- A customer — a user of government "services" (which come with terms and conditions)
- A subject — one who has subjected themselves to the jurisdiction of the fiction

This is not the same as being:

- A living soul upon the land
- One of God's offspring, freeborn and endowed with unalienable rights
- A national — connected to the nation, the land, the people — rather than a citizen of the corporation

The Mechanism:

And how does one become a "citizen" — a franchisee, a customer?

Through registration.

- The birth is registered — creating a legal "person"
- That "person" is presumed to be a citizen of the body politic
- The living soul is then conflated with the legal fiction
- And through that conflation, the living man or woman is treated as subject to the jurisdiction of the fiction

But as we have established:

- The birth certificate is not evidence of identity
- It is a copy of an entry in a register
- The living soul and the registered "person" are not the same thing

The Choice:

This brings us back to 1 Samuel 8:

"They have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them."

To become a citizen — a franchisee — of an earthly body politic is to place oneself under its jurisdiction rather than under God's. It is to accept its "king" and become its servant.

But the offspring of God are free. They are in the world, but not of it. They may walk upon the land without being subject to the fiction overlaid upon it — unless they consent, knowingly or unknowingly, to be treated as such.

The question, as always, is one of standing and awareness:

- Does the living soul know who they are?
- Do they understand the distinction?
- Have they consented — or has consent been presumed through ignorance?

Another piece of the picture.