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Petitioners also attached to their petition a series of
documents identified as "Exodus Documents", which petitioners
apparently filed with the local recorder's office in Missouri and
which include, inter alia, an "Abjuration of Citizenship", a
"Declaration of Citizenship", and "Affidavit of Pledge". The
"Abjuration of Citizenship" states as follows:
I, Duane B. Erwin/Linda L. Erwin, a NATURAL
FREEBORN NATIVE in Jackson County, Missouri, having
obtained tender mercy from God our Saviour, who will
have all men to be saved, and to come unto the
knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one
mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; who
gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due
time.
And I thank Jesus Christ, Son of the living God,
that he hath delivered me from this present evil world.
Now having been delivered from the power of darkness
and translated into the kingdom of God's dear Son,
being of full age, possessed of a sound mind, and not
acting under fraud, duress, or undue influence, do
solemnly swear and affirm the following:
1. That of my own free will, I voluntarily,
intentionally and willingly abjure, disavow, and
relinquish the citizenship of the United States, and
renounce and abandon with solemnity allegiance to the
United States.
2. That the United States is a foreign country, a
private corporation. I am not a member of the
aforesaid foreign corporation, the United States. I am
not a U.S. Citizen, and I do not elect to be a
resident-alien of the United States (District of
Columbia), its territories or possessions. I freely
and wholly choose to renounce and quit the United
States forever and never to return under its
jurisdiction.
3. That all vows, oaths, anathemas, obligations,
pledges of all names, which I have vowed, sworn,
devoted, or bound myself to, from birth until this 3rd
day of March, 1995, I repent, of them all, they shall
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