Where do you live?
Do you live in a state?
Do you live in The United States of America?
Do you live in The United States?
Venue
“Venue” means “place" and is used primarily to describe the proper place for a civil action or case to proceed because the place has some connection either with the events that give rise to the cause/case, the plaintiff or the defendant.
Venue is synonymous with the Latin word “locus,” which designates a particular place or position where something happened or existed. “Locus actus” describes the place where an act occurred; “locus delicti” means the place where an offense was committed.
The venue limits of the United States are set forth in the Constitution for the united States of America, 1789 A.D., as amended and ratified by passage of The Bill of Rights, 1791 (hereinafter referred to as “the Constitution”) the document which perfected the Nation styled “The United States of America”[1] and its government, “the United States”, Article 1, § 8, clauses 17 and 18, and Article 4, § 3, clause 2.
The venue of The United States of America includes the 50 independent compact states and the venue of the United States.
The venue of the United States includes, but is not limited to, the District of Columbia; the territories of the United States, which include, but are not limited to, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands; insular possessions located both within the fifty (50) independent compact states of The United States of America (such as national forests and parks, military installations, customs houses and post offices, etc.) and those outside the country including, but not limited to, U.S. Embassies and military installations such as the U.S. Marine Corps base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Laws affirm the limited venue of the United States: 4 U.S.C., §§ 71 and 72; 18 U.S.C., §§ 5 and 7; 28 U.S.C., Chapters 49 through 97; 40 U.S.C., § 3112(c); and, the UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE (“UCC”) Article 9, § 307(h) that states that:
“The United States is located in the District of Columbia.”
The boundaries of the District of Columbia were originally evidenced, after the secession of the land areas by the States of Maryland and Virginia, by a series of four-sided sandstone markers. On the side of the marker facing the State of Maryland is engraved the word “Maryland.” Two sides are engraved with the compass direction and distance to the location of the next closest marker. On the side facing the District of Columbia is inscribed the words “Jurisdiction of the United States.” Some of these markers still exist and mark the boundaries of the District of Columbia.
The State of Florida, the constitutional Republic (“Florida”), and the other 49 states, also have defined geographical exterior land and water boundaries. Florida’s boundaries are defined in the Constitution for Florida, Article 2, Section 1, and are also found in the laws of Florida. Evidence of the Laws of Florida are found in the FLORIDA STATUTES ("Fla. Sta.”) chapters 3, 4, and 5, that clearly identify the exterior land and water boundaries of Florida. The land, water, people, persons assets and property found inside the exterior boundaries of Florida (unless they are on land/water reserved by or lawfully ceded to the United States) may be subject to the jurisdiction of Florida.
Florida has a governor, a legislature, a judiciary, people who were born in Florida (or who moved to Florida and chose to inhabit an abode in Florida with the intent of making it their permanent home), and “ens legis” persons, such as associations, corporations, LLCs, foundations, partnerships, trusts, etc. created by the government of Florida.
The session laws of Florida, Fla. Sta. Chapter 6, allow for the transfer of absolute or concurrent jurisdiction over lands or waters located within Florida, from Florida to the United States when constitutionally required or necessary for the proper functioning of the federal government, provided that the appropriate lawful procedures are strictly followed and completed.
40 U.S.C., section 3112(e), states that “unless and until the United States has accepted jurisdiction over lands hereinafter acquired as aforesaid, it shall be conclusively presumed that no such jurisdiction has been accepted.”
Thus, the presumption concerning federal jurisdiction over the land or bodies of water located inside any of the fifty (50) states is that all land and water found inside the exterior boundaries of a state are within the jurisdiction of that state unless they have been reserved by the United States or lawfully ceded by the state to the United States.
Do you know what land and water areas comprise the state or the federal --- DISTRICT OF --- (the state you are in) such as the "SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA"?
So, where do you live?
[1] See Articles of Confederation, 1781 A.D., Article I.