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Sources and Verification

Paper 9 of a Series on Pseudolaw: Appendix Abstract This appendix exists because the series has rested its case on a single claim: that pseudolegal assertions can be checked against their sources, and that the checking settles the matter. A … Continue reading

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Recognition and Response

Paper 8 of a Series on Pseudolaw Abstract The preceding seven papers established what pseudolegal theories are, where they came from, what they claim, why the claims fail, what they cost, how the scriptural case for them collapses, and why … Continue reading

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Sound Convictions, False Remedies: Why Pseudolaw Recruits Where It Does, and How Legitimate Advocacy Can Be Protected From It

Paper 7 of a Series on Pseudolaw Abstract The preceding papers established what pseudolegal theories claim, why the claims fail against their cited sources, what they cost those who adopt them, and how the scriptural case for them collapses at … Continue reading

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The Religious Costume

Paper 6 of a Series on Pseudolaw Abstract Pseudolegal claims frequently arrive with Scripture attached. This paper examines that overlay directly: the passages recurrently cited, the readings imposed on them, and what the passages say when read in context. It … Continue reading

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What It Costs

Paper 5 of a Series on Pseudolaw Abstract Papers 3 and 4 established what pseudolegal theories claim and why the claims fail against their own cited sources. A person may accept both findings and still regard the matter as unimportant … Continue reading

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Why None of It Works

Paper 4 of a Series on Pseudolaw Abstract Paper 3 stated the pseudolegal system in its promoters’ own terms and identified fourteen claims together with the authorities cited for each. This paper tests those claims against their sources. It begins … Continue reading

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How the Machinery Is Supposed to Work

Paper 3 of a Series on Pseudolaw Abstract A refutation that misstates the position it refutes persuades no one who holds the position. This paper therefore sets out the pseudolegal system as its promoters teach it — the two-person doctrine, … Continue reading

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One Family Tree: The Documented History of Pseudolaw

Paper 2 of a Series on Pseudolaw Abstract Pseudolegal theories are typically encountered as isolated curiosities: a strange filing in a foreclosure case, an unusual argument at a traffic stop, a seminar advertised in a church bulletin. Presented this way, … Continue reading

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Naming the Thing: What Pseudolaw Is and Is Not

Paper 1 of a Series on Pseudolaw Abstract Public discussion of “sovereign citizens,” “freemen-on-the-land,” and related movements suffers from a definitional problem. The label is applied loosely enough that it sweeps in ordinary constitutional dissent, and narrowly enough that new … Continue reading

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From the Feed to the Field: Content Designed to Connect Aviation Interest to Local Aviation Institutions

Abstract A large, informed, and motivated population follows aviation closely and participates in it locally at a very low rate. This is not primarily a problem of interest, awareness, or even cost. It is a problem of routing: the content … Continue reading

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