“When a change of government takes place from a monarchical to a republican government, the old form is dissolved.–Those who lived under it, and did not choose to become members of the new, had a right to refuse their allegiance to it, and to retire elsewhere. By being a part of the society subject to the old government, they had not entered into any engagement to become subject to any new form the majority might think proper to adopt. That the majority shall prevail is a rule posterior to the formation of government, and results from it. It is not a rule binding upon mankind in their natural state.
There every man is independant of all laws, except those prescribed by nature. He is not bound by any institutions formed by his fellow-men without his consent.
CRUDEN v. NEALE. 1796.
Penhallow v. Doane’s Administrators, 3 U.S. 54 (1795)
“Inasmuch as every government is an artificial person, an abstraction, and a creature of the mind only, a government can interface only with other artificial persons. The imaginary, having neither actuality nor substance, is foreclosed from creating and attaining parity with the tangible. The legal manifestation of this is that no government, as well as any law, agency, aspect, court, etc. can concern itself with anything other than corporate, artificial persons and the contracts between them.”
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