Understanding the
Jurisdiction Framework

A guided web edition of the 2018 charts and update by Anna Von Reitz.

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How to Read the Charts

Start with the layers.
Then compare the years.

The source document uses names, capitalization, color, and horizontal placement to explain the author's view of American governmental jurisdiction. This web guide organizes those labels so readers can follow the framework before studying the complete charts.

Source context: This page explains the framework presented in the uploaded document. It should be compared with constitutional text, enacted law, and court decisions when evaluating current legal jurisdiction.

The Four Main Layers

Soil, land, and sea.

National Soil Jurisdiction

The document links the lowercase republican states with The United States (soil) and describes this level through local State and family assemblies.

International Land Jurisdiction

The document links the Republic States with The United States of America (land), using capitalization to distinguish this layer from the soil jurisdiction.

Retained International Sea

The charts label The United States of America (sea) as unincorporated and connect it with powers the author describes as retained under Amendment X.

Delegated International Sea

The federal layer is shown through names including States of America, Territorial United States, Municipal United States, and the District of Columbia.

The Document's Timeline

Three snapshots of the structure.

Each chart builds on the last, showing how the author says the names and relationships changed over time.

1790

Original Structure

The first chart separates the soil, land, retained sea, delegated federal, territorial, and municipal layers. It uses distinct names and capitalization for each part of the author's framework.

1870

Post-Civil War Structure

The second chart adds unincorporated land and sea labels, Amendment X powers, trusts, territorial entities, and doing-business-as relationships.

1970

Expanded Corporate Structure

The third chart depicts additional territorial and municipal corporate names and lists agencies and State-of-State names beneath those layers.

Author's Historical Account

What the update says happened.

The final pages move from the diagrams into a written explanation. The following points summarize the author's account rather than adding new claims to the source.

01
The Civil War is characterized as a conflict among federal service providers rather than a war involving a sovereign entity.
02
The original States of America are described as having been placed into trusts after that conflict.
03
Territorial States with similar names are described as replacing the earlier national States, making the change difficult for the public to see.
04
The author says this altered the intended checks and balances and led to increasing incorporation and privatization.
05
The document concludes by describing a dispute over whether The United States of America (Unincorporated) and its assets still exist.

Original Source

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Author: Anna Von Reitz • Created March 14, 2018 • Six-page PDF

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Understanding theJurisdiction Framework

Start with the layers.Then compare the years.