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[00:00.000 --> 00:02.040]  I'm Dave Champion.
[00:02.040 --> 00:10.000]  I think most people would agree with the statement, the federal government has too much power.
[00:10.000 --> 00:18.240]  This is another area where the government is playing a game and you don't know the
[00:18.240 --> 00:19.240]  rules.
[00:19.240 --> 00:29.220]  Let's see if we can fix that.
[00:29.220 --> 00:34.220]  In order for the federal government to act, the federal government has to have something
[00:34.220 --> 00:36.580]  called jurisdiction.
[00:36.580 --> 00:40.860]  And I will tell you that while the states have something called general jurisdiction,
[00:40.860 --> 00:44.500]  the federal government has, you probably remember this from junior high school, high school,
[00:44.500 --> 00:50.260]  or your civics class, it is a government of limited powers.
[00:50.260 --> 00:57.700]  Then we have to factor in that the Supreme Court has expanded or modified what we might
[00:58.220 --> 01:02.140]  the federal government's power should be based on the language in the Constitution.
[01:02.140 --> 01:06.460]  So we have to be aware of those cases as well in order to have a full picture of federal
[01:06.460 --> 01:07.780]  jurisdiction.
[01:07.780 --> 01:10.660]  Before I get rolling in earnest, I want to let you know that attorney Larry Becraft
[01:10.660 --> 01:17.900]  has a wonderful brief on his website on federal jurisdiction, and I'll go ahead and put the
[01:17.900 --> 01:19.980]  link in the comments below.
[01:19.980 --> 01:26.780]  The federal government has two broad areas of jurisdiction, subject matter jurisdiction,
[01:26.780 --> 01:29.780]  and territorial jurisdiction.
[01:29.780 --> 01:33.740]  Subject matter jurisdiction is derived from the points in the Constitution, the provisions
[01:33.740 --> 01:38.060]  that grant the United States government power, and that grant of course came from the states
[01:38.060 --> 01:43.180]  of the Union when their representatives crafted the Constitution and said, okay, we the states
[01:43.180 --> 01:47.140]  have all of this authority, and we're going to establish this thing called the federal
[01:47.140 --> 01:53.540]  government, and we're going to vest it with these particularized authorities and no more.
[01:53.540 --> 01:56.420]  That is subject matter jurisdiction.
[01:56.420 --> 02:01.300]  The Constitution vests to the federal government with a second type of jurisdiction, and that
[02:01.300 --> 02:03.460]  is territorial jurisdiction.
[02:03.460 --> 02:10.580]  That means any place over which Congress is the sovereign, the federal government has
[02:10.580 --> 02:12.780]  complete jurisdiction.
[02:12.780 --> 02:18.980]  These are places, for example, like Washington, D.C., federal possessions and territories,
[02:18.980 --> 02:22.520]  Guam, American Samoa, Wake Island, places like that.
[02:22.520 --> 02:28.600]  These are places that are under the exclusive legislative jurisdiction of the United States.
[02:28.600 --> 02:32.920]  I'm confident you already know this, but just for the sake of completeness, the states of
[02:32.920 --> 02:41.120]  the Union are 100% not within the territorial jurisdiction of Congress.
[02:41.120 --> 02:47.040]  When we say that Congress has too much authority or too much power, how does Congress put that
[02:47.040 --> 02:48.520]  power into play?
[02:48.720 --> 02:54.680]  Well, of course, Congress does that by legislation, which is then carried out by federal agencies.
[02:54.680 --> 02:58.600]  If you read the United States Constitution from the first word to the last word, you
[02:58.600 --> 03:04.520]  will find that Congress has been granted very few areas of jurisdiction, what we today call
[03:04.520 --> 03:07.080]  subject matter jurisdiction.
[03:07.080 --> 03:13.160]  So the vast majority of the time when people say the government has too much power, it's
[03:13.160 --> 03:18.020]  not subject matter jurisdiction that's in play.
[03:18.020 --> 03:24.340]  That leaves territorial jurisdiction, and that, my friends, is where the scam gets run,
[03:24.340 --> 03:28.940]  and that is where you do not understand the rules of the game.
[03:28.940 --> 03:31.500]  So let me explain this.
[03:31.500 --> 03:36.420]  The United States Supreme Court has ruled that the United States, the term, the phrase
[03:36.420 --> 03:40.700]  United States, has a couple of different meanings in law.
[03:40.700 --> 03:50.420]  One of them are the possessions and territories over which Congress has exclusive jurisdiction.
[03:50.420 --> 03:53.160]  Now follow me on this.
[03:53.160 --> 03:55.400]  The decisions of the court, and there are several of them, I'm not going to get all
[03:55.400 --> 04:00.540]  into the specific language of them, but the takeaway message, the legal landscape today,
[04:00.540 --> 04:04.480]  the constitutional landscape, is as follows.
[04:04.480 --> 04:10.260]  When the United States government is legislating in its capacity as the federal government,
[04:10.260 --> 04:15.060]  having been granted powers by the states of the union, and is legislating on its subject
[04:15.060 --> 04:24.240]  matter jurisdiction that may involve the 50 states, the Congress is restricted to those
[04:24.240 --> 04:28.420]  powers enumerated in the Constitution.
[04:28.420 --> 04:36.300]  But when legislating for the areas where it has territorial authority, the opposite is
[04:36.300 --> 04:37.300]  true.
[04:37.340 --> 04:45.180]  The Supreme Court has said it may do anything it is not specifically restricted from doing.
[04:45.180 --> 04:51.580]  So you have one which is totally right and proper in the form of government that the
[04:51.580 --> 04:55.980]  founding fathers established, and then you have this other one, sanctioned by the Supreme
[04:55.980 --> 05:04.480]  Court, that says Congress is essentially a king, almost damn near a dictator when it
[05:04.800 --> 05:13.440]  comes to legislating for the areas over which Congress has exclusive territorial jurisdiction.
[05:13.440 --> 05:18.880]  So then when you pull up that handy dandy piece of legislation that somebody has just
[05:18.880 --> 05:25.100]  introduced for a vote in Congress, where do you find the distinction between Congress
[05:25.100 --> 05:30.720]  legislating for the 50 states in its proper and appropriate role as having been created
[05:30.800 --> 05:35.160]  by the states of the union, and how do you distinguish then a piece of legislation that
[05:35.160 --> 05:39.480]  is territorial in nature?
[05:39.480 --> 05:40.480]  You don't.
[05:40.480 --> 05:44.200]  I mean you can, but it's by context.
[05:44.200 --> 05:48.760]  I have long advocated that Congress pass a law, which they never will because it would
[05:48.760 --> 05:59.880]  end the scam, that every single piece of legislation that's introduced must have at the very top
[05:59.880 --> 06:08.920]  a provision that discusses where in the Constitution whoever it is that wants this legislation
[06:08.920 --> 06:13.520]  passed imagines that Congress gets the authority to do that.
[06:13.520 --> 06:18.000]  That provision, that disclaimer if you will at the top of legislation would answer that
[06:18.000 --> 06:21.120]  question and of course Congress will never do that because that would end the scam.
[06:21.120 --> 06:23.240]  It would be hard for me to overstate this.
[06:23.240 --> 06:32.280]  An incredibly huge number of pieces of legislation enacted by Congress are territorial in nature.
[06:32.280 --> 06:39.880]  But because nobody argues that when it goes to court, the court not having received that
[06:39.880 --> 06:43.320]  argument, say United States District Court, which is an entry level court in the federal
[06:43.320 --> 06:48.240]  system, when you walk into court and you say your honor, this isn't right, this is
[06:48.240 --> 06:57.800]  violative of the Constitution, the judge looks at me in his mind, this guy's an idiot.
[06:57.800 --> 06:58.800]  No it's not.
[06:58.800 --> 06:59.800]  It's territorial.
[06:59.800 --> 07:04.920]  But since he didn't make that argument, I'm not going to address that argument and I'm
[07:04.920 --> 07:11.640]  going to say boom, yeah, it applies to you because you didn't make the correct argument.
[07:11.640 --> 07:13.800]  That's how courts work.
[07:13.800 --> 07:16.320]  Courts don't make your arguments for you.
[07:16.360 --> 07:21.920]  So I'm going to give you a perfect example right now of a piece of legislation that has,
[07:21.920 --> 07:29.360]  if you're a gun guy, has impacted your world since you became a gun guy.
[07:29.360 --> 07:35.600]  That is the Federal Firearms Act and I wrote a piece on this probably 15 years ago now
[07:35.600 --> 07:44.440]  where I talk about how it is territorial legislation that is being applied across the United States.
[07:44.440 --> 07:45.800]  So where can you find this?
[07:45.800 --> 07:50.360]  You can find this on, I no longer maintain this site, it's very graciously maintained
[07:50.360 --> 07:56.480]  by other people, it has a significant selection of my early writings and the one I'm referring
[07:56.480 --> 08:02.960]  to is the Federal Firearms Act and all you have to do is go to OriginalIntent.org, click
[08:02.960 --> 08:07.520]  on the circle that says education and select the Federal Firearms Act and read all about
[08:07.520 --> 08:08.520]  it.
[08:08.520 --> 08:15.440]  That's the perfect example of how Congress has buffaloed you because you don't know the
[08:15.440 --> 08:17.200]  rules of the game.
[08:17.200 --> 08:23.440]  So everybody thinks that not only that piece of legislation but many other subsequent firearms
[08:23.440 --> 08:30.800]  legislation that build on that foundation apply in the 50 states and they don't and
[08:30.800 --> 08:34.520]  that treatise I wrote makes it perfectly clear.
[08:34.520 --> 08:42.520]  And this is one of the reasons for instance that I question the sincerity of many of the
[08:42.520 --> 08:51.120]  people, the attorneys, the executives in various firearms organizations because they've been
[08:51.120 --> 08:55.940]  shown this treatise time and time again.
[08:55.940 --> 09:03.400]  They have no criticism of it because it is 100% factual but instead when somebody says
[09:03.400 --> 09:08.680]  look at this, what are you going to do with this Mr. Attorney for, fill in the organization
[09:08.680 --> 09:17.160]  name, what are you going to do with this, look, tell me what and a 40 or 50 year old
[09:17.160 --> 09:26.600]  attorney essentially does the attorney version of la la la la la la la la la.
[09:26.600 --> 09:30.740]  They don't want to get into, for whatever reason I leave that to you, they do not want
[09:30.740 --> 09:36.980]  to get into the issue of territorial jurisdiction for federal legislation.
[09:36.980 --> 09:43.300]  And that is one of the most significant problems with the government, the federal government
[09:43.300 --> 09:47.020]  exerting what we consider to be undue influence.
[09:47.020 --> 09:58.360]  It's not undue power, it's just geographically misapplied to you and I rather than being
[09:58.360 --> 10:01.300]  limited to where it truly belongs.
[10:01.300 --> 10:07.860]  Now I decided to do this video because this subject has reared its head once again concerning
[10:07.860 --> 10:10.340]  the income tax.
[10:10.340 --> 10:15.460]  I've seen people in various postings start to talk about the fact that the income tax
[10:15.460 --> 10:21.100]  is territorial legislation and as you can see from the earlier part of this presentation,
[10:21.100 --> 10:26.600]  that's a real thing and it is a real problem and another real problem is people trying
[10:27.260 --> 10:30.540]  The income tax is territorial, it is not.
[10:30.540 --> 10:34.320]  It is subject matter jurisdiction.
[10:34.320 --> 10:39.640]  The founding fathers specifically gave the federal government the authority to impose
[10:39.640 --> 10:40.820]  an income tax.
[10:40.820 --> 10:46.780]  The only difference is what they envision, they don't use the word income tax, it's
[10:46.780 --> 10:53.920]  just an indirect tax and you can find it all about that here, but the founders didn't have
[10:53.920 --> 11:02.420]  a problem with an income tax per se, but if you had spoken to a founding father and
[11:02.420 --> 11:10.820]  said, can Congress impose an income tax, sure, you mean an indirect tax, yeah, absolutely.
[11:10.820 --> 11:15.600]  So they can impose that on the citizens of the states of the union, absolutely not would
[11:15.600 --> 11:19.180]  have been the answer and Congress hasn't.
[11:19.180 --> 11:23.440]  It doesn't really matter whether we're talking about firearms, environmental law, income
[11:23.440 --> 11:29.120]  tax, misunderstanding the difference between subject matter jurisdiction and territorial
[11:29.120 --> 11:31.480]  jurisdiction is a huge problem.
[11:31.480 --> 11:41.060]  So in terms of the income tax, stop with the territorial argument, it is non-factual.
[11:41.060 --> 11:45.680]  If you read this, you will find out it's subject matter jurisdiction and you will find
[11:45.680 --> 11:49.100]  out that rather than what most Americans think, which is, you know, it's gigantic
[11:49.100 --> 11:54.100]  and embraces everybody, it's actually very, very small and embraces just a very few people.
[11:54.100 --> 11:58.300]  Some of the founders built the Constitution and that's what Congress actually did.
[11:58.300 --> 12:03.120]  The only reason that people believe otherwise is there's a pervasive false public narrative
[12:03.120 --> 12:04.380]  about it.
[12:04.380 --> 12:08.240]  Once you learn, the hack goes out the window.
[12:08.240 --> 12:12.700]  So I guess the point I'd like to make in closing is if you read this, even though it's
[12:12.700 --> 12:20.640]  about income tax, you will learn a lot about how the federal government plays the jurisdiction
[12:20.640 --> 12:23.820]  game and plays other legal games.
[12:23.820 --> 12:28.920]  And the great thing is you can take all the lessons you learned here and then you look
[12:28.920 --> 12:38.500]  at legislation across the board and you go, ha, no, can't fool me again.
[12:38.500 --> 12:42.180]  So if you want to get your hands on a copy of this, which will free you from the income
[12:42.180 --> 12:46.560]  tax and educate you about a whole lot of other federal jurisdiction issues so that
[12:46.560 --> 12:53.220]  you can never be fooled by the federal government ever again, just go to drreality.news, click
[12:53.220 --> 12:54.780]  on that, hit the buy button.
[12:54.780 --> 12:55.780]  All right, guys, take care.
[12:55.780 --> 12:56.280]  Bye bye.