"Sovereign Citizens" should not appeal to the Queen of England...
2015-02-24 16:57:56.43569+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Posner informs pro se litigant that the queen of England did not absolve him of need to pay taxes:
El Bey got his history wrong, Posner writes in his order.
“The Stamp Act was enacted by the Parliament of Great Britain in 1765,” Posner wrote. “It did not relieve Americans of any taxes; on the contrary, it imposed a comprehensive tax on the use of paper by Americans. The Act was not a treaty between Britain and the federal government of the United States, for there was no United States; there were just the 13 British colonies that 11 years later declared independence from Great Britain. There were no federal taxes that the act could have relieved Americans from having to pay. The sovereign of Britain at the time was a king, not a queen; the king’s wife (Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz) was Great Britain’s queen but had no governmental authority.”