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Sovereign Citizens
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Sovereign citizen movement.
Illegitimacy of laws and government
Sovereign citizens believe that sometime after the Founding Fathers set up the government, commercial law secretly replaced common law. This commercial law is generally understood to be admiralty law, as sovereign citizens believe the current, illegitimate law is based on principles of international commerce. Sovereign citizens also claim that the gold fringes on U.S. flags displayed in courtrooms is evidence that admiralty law is in effect. This leads them to believe that U.S. judges and lawyers are actually agents of a foreign power, typically thought to be the United Kingdom: one pseudolegal conspiracy theory claims that bar is an acronym for "British Accreditation Registry".