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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Too often, it is what we already know and accept as “the facts” which are our enemy.<o

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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">At every turn we are faced with conflicting facts, conflicting realities, and always with misrepresentations, half truths, and outright fraud!<o

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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.5pt">>> What can one do about having been treated in the past as a 14th amendment slave as opposed to being a free citizen of the soil?<<<o

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<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.5pt">>>Does anyone know if the use of "person" in the U.S. con carries the same legal definition as most codes using the word "person"?<<<o

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<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.5pt">>>I think that the part about "citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." could also use some explination from a more experienced member.<<<o

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<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.5pt">>>So "citizens" have&"privileges." "Persons" have "rights." "Privileges" can therefore mean only "civil rights," such as the right to vote, etc.<<<o

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<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Men and women have rights. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,…”[Declaration of Independence]<o

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