![We know THE CITY OF LONDON is its own nation. Did DJT do the same thing to DC? Interesting theory. [1427x391 - 122KB]](https://poal.co/static/images/qjCb6S.png){kind=link}
The United States and The United States of America are not equivalent in law, otherwise there would be no need to mention both in the same code:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1449 8 U.S. Code § 1449 - Certificate of naturalization; contents “...the Attorney General, having found that the applicant had complied in all respects with all of the applicable provisions of the naturalization laws of the United States, and was entitled to be admitted a citizen of the United States of America, thereupon ordered that the applicant be admitted as a citizen of the United States of America; ...”
The United States does not equal The United States of America.
The cover of my passport says United States of America, and does not say United States.
The data page of my passport, under Nationality, says UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and not United States.
My place of birth is MISSOURI, U.S.A. and not MISSOURI, U.S.
The tax laws of the United States apply to US citizens and resident aliens (I am neither). The FATCA applies to U.S. persons (of which I am not).
Even the form for renouncing nationality, https://eforms.state.gov/Forms/ds4080.pdf, is for renouncing nationality of the United States and requires one to state that they are a national of the United States, who resided in the United States. I would be perjuring myself to sign such a form. One can't renounce what you never had.
Further, when I applied for my latest passport as a new application (not a renewal), I included PASSPORT EXPLANATORY STATEMENTS, sworn under penalty of perjury, in which I stated that I am a Citizen of Arizona and was not born or naturalized in the United States. I have used my latest passport card to travel to Mexico and back to the USA, as well as using the passport to enter and leave the USA in 2019, and no one has questioned my PASSPORT EXPLANATORY STATEMENTS. The US government considers passport fraud a serious matter.
Interesting. Sounds like that sovereign citizen stuff.
States have their own citizens, and the United States has their citizens. One can be a State citizen without being a US citizen. No, it is following the rule of law. When you search the United States Codes and Code of Federal Regulations for State, United States, United States of America, 50 states, states of the union, the several states, even Arizona and Missouri, it is interesting how definitions vary.
(post is archived)