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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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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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