Blackstone comment:
he State’s Permission
Government cannot give or deny permission. By issuing marriage licenses the State is saying, “You don’t need your parent’s permission, you need our permission.” Of course they don’t market their licenses that way. The people go to the State and request them! On this subject Augustus Blackstone writes:
“As ‘Posterity’ of ‘We The People’ (founders of this nation), we inherit the mantle of Body Sovereign as a matter of Birthright. Government administrators and civil servants are just that: servants. They are part of our inheritance and they have no Lawful authority to exercise compelling force on us unless:
1) They were expressly given that power by the collective Body Sovereign via our Constitution, or:
2) They are granted such power by the individual sovereign via the device of Contract.
“Let’s say we want to build a new chicken coop. We are led to believe we must ‘apply’ for a ‘building permit’ before we can do that. The word ‘apply’ means to put to use, to assign to a specific purpose, to put into effect. These definitions make it rather apparent that whoever is doing the ‘applying’ is the source of causation over the action. Hence: a sovereign who is making an ‘application’ is, by definition, causing/authorizing something to happen.
“A ‘License’ or ‘permit,’ of course, is a ‘permission’ to do or not do something. The misconception is to believe that the ‘permission’ is being given by the government entity to the applicant. That is a completely inverted thought pattern. What is actually occurring is that the sovereign’s ‘permission’ is being given to the government entity to regulate/police/control the applicant! It is a grant of individual sovereign power (to the servant). And, when coupled with the application form/document, constitutes a Contract in Fact. The grant of sovereign power is a very ‘valuable consideration.’ That and the inherent agreement to such a transfer of power constitute the two most important of the four elements, which define a valid contract” (
he State’s Permission
Government cannot give or deny permission. By issuing marriage licenses the State is saying, “You don’t need your parent’s permission, you need our permission.” Of course they don’t market their licenses that way. The people go to the State and request them! On this subject Augustus Blackstone writes:
“As ‘Posterity’ of ‘We The People’ (founders of this nation), we inherit the mantle of Body Sovereign as a matter of Birthright. Government administrators and civil servants are just that: servants. They are part of our inheritance and they have no Lawful authority to exercise compelling force on us unless:
1) They were expressly given that power by the collective Body Sovereign via our Constitution, or:
2) They are granted such power by the individual sovereign via the device of Contract.
“Let’s say we want to build a new chicken coop. We are led to believe we must ‘apply’ for a ‘building permit’ before we can do that. The word ‘apply’ means to put to use, to assign to a specific purpose, to put into effect. These definitions make it rather apparent that whoever is doing the ‘applying’ is the source of causation over the action. Hence: a sovereign who is making an ‘application’ is, by definition, causing/authorizing something to happen.
“A ‘License’ or ‘permit,’ of course, is a ‘permission’ to do or not do something. The misconception is to believe that the ‘permission’ is being given by the government entity to the applicant. That is a completely inverted thought pattern. What is actually occurring is that the sovereign’s ‘permission’ is being given to the government entity to regulate/police/control the applicant! It is a grant of individual sovereign power (to the servant). And, when coupled with the application form/document, constitutes a Contract in Fact. The grant of sovereign power is a very ‘valuable consideration.’ That and the inherent agreement to such a transfer of power constitute the two most important of the four elements, which define a valid contract” (