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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: U.S. Code v. Statutes at Large (fwd)

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>I have a little book called "The Authority of Law" by
>Charles A Weisman 11751 W River Hills Dr. #107  Burnsville Minn
>55337 that he sells for $10 or $15.
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>In this book Weisman discusses, among other topics, how the
>"codes" arose and how the US Code came to be used in prosecutions
>by the federal government. He also covers the topic of the
>publication of purported legislation without an enacting clause
>and title and how and why the requirement of an enacting clause
>and a title on the face of the legislative bill and published law
>must be met for such a purported piece of legislation not to be
>void and null on its face.  A leading case is In re Seat of
>Government, 1 Wash. Ter. 115, 123 (1861).  See also Law and
>Practice of Legislative Assemblies (1819) by Cushing, Blackstone,
>Kent, and numerous State Constitutions and State supreme court
>decisions.  Numerous laws have been declared null and void by
>courts because of the lack of an enacting clause and title on the
>face of the legislative bill and/or published statute. Weisman
>cites these instances thoroughly.
>
>Weisman recounts that until the case of Steward Machine Co. v.
>Davis, 301 U.S. 548 (1937) laws were cited according to the
>Statutes at Large and the revision of laws called "The United
>States Code", approved by an Act of Congress June 30, 1926 (44
>Stat. Part 1), was largely ignored.  It was cited in a few cases,
>but even then was almost invariably cited with the Statute at
>Large citation.
>
>According to Weisman, the case of Steward Machine Co. v Davis was
>a turning point in our judicial system, at least in regards to
>criminal matters.  While the Statute at Large was cited, the US
>Code was also included.  This was the case on the
>constitutionality of the Social Security Act.  It was the case
>Cardoza used to begin ramming the New Deal through the Court.
>Thereafter, on all indictments charging a violation of the Social
>Security and the subsequent New Deal socialist legislation
>appeared the US Code, not the Statutes at Large.  Clearly, the
>government saw something fundamental in this case.   By the
>1940's, the Code effectively replaced the Statutes at Large in
>all  criminal proceedings and indictments.
>
>Weisman:  "Laws within the Statutes at Large were identified as
>being either public or private laws.  Acts which were laws,
>resolutions, or proclamations were so designated by their
>identifying enacting clauses and titles.  But no one can tell the
>nature of the "laws" in the U.S. Code."
>
>"The object of an enacting clause is to show that the act comes
>from a place pointed out by the Constitution as the source of
>power."  Ferrill v Keel, 151 S.W. 269, 272, 105 Ark. 380 (1912)
>
>There is no enacting clause for the US Code.  The laws in the
>U.S. Code are unnamed; they show no sign of authority; they carry
>with them no evidence that Congress or any other lawmaking power
>is responsible for them.   They lack the essential requisites to
>make them a law authorized under article 1 of the Constitution
>for the United States.
>
>No criminal jurisdiction exists without a bona fide act of
>Congress.  61 Statutes at Large 633, 634 sec 101 is a law
>requiring an enacting clause for a bill passed by Congress to be
>law.  An indictment that is not by a law does not establish
>subject matter jurisdiction for a court. Proceedings by a court
>without jurisdiction is usurpation and tyranny.  A judge put on
>notice of this proceeds at his peril.  If he is not put on
>notice, the matter is not raised; the right is waived.
>"jurisdiction of the person may be conferred by consent and by
>pleading to the merits of the case"  [ i.e. entering a plea ] 
>Smith v State 148 S. 858, 860 (Ala. App. 1933).  The issue of
>subject matter jurisdiction is a matter of law, however, and
>cannot be waived.  "Jurisdiction of the subject matter is derived
>from the law.  It can neither be waived nor conferred by consent
>of the accused"  21 American Jurisprudence, 2nd, :Criminal Law"
>sec 339 p 589 "but may be questioned at any stage of proceedings"
>Harris v State 82 A.2d 387, 389, 46 Del. 111 (1950).  The
>challenge to subject matter jurisdiction is the key to stopping
>the de facto courts because it exposes the judge. You need to
>read Weisman to fill in the details.  The US Code and probably
>all state codes are merely prima facia evidence of law, not
>actual law and impeachable as a basis for a valid indictiment. 
>"When a criminal defendent is indicted under a not-yet-effective
>statute, the charging document is void." State v Dungan 718 P.2d
>1010, 1014, 149 Ariz. 357 (1985)
>
>"Jurisdiction over the subject matter of action is essential to
>power of court to act, and is conferred only by constitution or
>by valid statute." Brown v State 37 N. E. 2d 73, 77 (Ind. 1941)
>
>There is no difference between the positive parts of the Code and
>the rest of the Code. Go read Title 1 to the US Code.  All it
>says is that "The matter set forth in the edition of the Code of
>Laws of the United States current at any time shall, together
>with the then current supplement, if any, establish prima facie
>the laws of the United States, general and permanent in their
>nature.. provided however, that whenever titles of such Code
>shall have been enacted into positive law, the text thereof shall
>be legal evidence of the laws therein contained."  It does not
>say they are evidence of the statutes of Congress or of the laws
>of the United States.  There is no difference between prima facia
>evidence and legal evidence. Legal evidence is "circumstantial
>evidence", "heasay evidence", documentary evidence, oral
>testimony evidence, etc., a broad term denoting anything
>admissable in a court of law.  "ADMISSABLE".   Legal evidence is
>not law.  But prima facie evidence which is not challenged or
>impeached is presumed conclusive. The code is impeachable because
>citiations of it are citiations of something that lacks the
>enacting clause and title necessary to make a legislative act
>into law.  The Code is the decree of a committee, not the act of
>a legislature authorized by a Constitution. .  Title 1 is
>doublespeak, saying nothing.   Why is not the US Code ever called
>"the official source of United States laws" ?  What is the legal
>relation between a Court and a "law Revision Counsel".  In the
>Constitution, there is none.  Courts are using Codes by
>permission. There are lots of cases which state that "the
>criminal jurisdiction of the United States exists only by Acts of
>Congress pursuant to the Constitution."  There is evidence of a
>fundamental loss of judicial independence, judicial usurpation,
>and judicial tyranny if a judge, when challenged, supports the
>prosecution in using codes as the basis for subject matter
>jurisdiction for informations, indictments, and complaints.  But
>unless the courts are noticed of this fact, the ground is not
>laid for lawful resistance to tyranny and usurpation.
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