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  • Federalist 78: The Judiciary Has No Power Without Consent

    By: Joel Stephen Mattson When Alexander Hamilton wrote Federalist No. 78 in 1788, he laid out one of the clearest truths ever stated in American law: the judiciary has no force or will — only judgment. That means no judge, no court, and no administrative agency has any real power unless we give it to…

  • Pro Se Liberation: How Families Can Challenge Unlawful Incarceration Without an Attorney — And Win

    By: Joel Stephen Mattson – Constitutional Advocate & Scholar of Constitutional Law **Pro Se Liberation: How Families Can Challenge Unlawful Incarceration Without an Attorney — And Win** Every year, thousands of families are left devastated by wrongful convictions, unjust plea deals, and rigged proceedings where the truth was never allowed to surface. The common belief…

  • First Amendment Violations and How to Fight Back

    By: Joel Stephen Mattson The First Amendment isn’t a polite suggestion — it’s a binding command to government: Do. Not. Touch. our rights to speak, assemble, petition, or practice our beliefs. And yet, across the country, officials trample these rights daily. People get arrested for filming cops. Whistleblowers are silenced. Peaceful protests are broken up.…

  • What Is an Article I Court? And Why You’re Being Tried in One Without Knowing

    By: Joel Stephen Mattson You probably assumed that any judge in a black robe, sitting behind a bench, is a constitutional authority. You thought the courtroom itself was a place where your rights were supreme. But in over 80% of cases, you’re not in a constitutional court at all. You’re in what’s called an Article…

  • The Magistrate Act: How You Were Tricked Into Corporate Court

    By: Joel Stephen Mattson Most Americans have no idea that the courtroom they walk into isn’t a constitutional court at all. It’s an administrative tribunal—a private corporate court operating under Article I, not Article III of the Constitution. And the most insidious part? These courts require consent from both parties to proceed. That means if…

  • Why No Statute Applies Without Consent

    By: Joel Stephen Mattson The government wants you to believe that statutes are law — that they apply to everyone automatically, and that violating them makes you a criminal. But what they’ll never admit in open court is the one truth that dismantles their entire code-based system: No statute applies without your consent. This is…

  • The Right to Disassociate: Why Government Cannot Force You Into Its Corporate Contract

    By: Joel Stephen Mattson The Constitution protects the right to free speech, the right to religion, the right to due process. But there’s one right so powerful and so ignored that it unravels the entire corporate governance structure when properly invoked: The right to disassociate. If you have the right to freely associate with whatever…

  • Excessive Force and Fourth Amendment Violations

    By: Joel Stephen Mattson When law enforcement uses physical violence without legal justification, it isn’t just abuse—it’s a Fourth Amendment violation. Excessive force is one of the clearest and most damaging forms of misconduct under color of law, and courts have consistently ruled that officers who cross the constitutional line can and must be held…

  • The Magistrate Act: How You Were Tricked Into Corporate Court

    By: Joel Stephen Mattson Most Americans walk into court thinking they’re stepping into a legitimate judicial forum. A place where the Constitution rules, justice is blind, and their rights will be honored. But what if I told you that nearly every court proceeding you’ve ever seen or experienced wasn’t a judicial court at all, but…

  • The Grand Jury Trap: Why Prosecution by Information Is Fraud

    By: Joel Stephen Mattson If you’ve been charged with a crime, chances are your case never even saw a Grand Jury. Instead, you were prosecuted by something called an “INFORMATION” — a piece of paper drafted by a prosecutor, rubber-stamped by a judge, and used to haul you into court. Sounds official, doesn’t it? But…

  • How to Get Your Loved Ones Out of Prison Without an Attorney

    By: Joel Stephen Mattson If someone you care about is wrongfully incarcerated or imprisoned without lawful justification, it can feel overwhelming and intimidating—especially if attorneys are either unwilling or unable to fight aggressively for their release. Fortunately, powerful legal documents exist that you can utilize yourself to challenge unlawful imprisonment and free your loved ones,…

  • Joel Stephen Mattson – Constitutional Analyst

    “We Don’t Beg for Rights. We Enforce Them.” Welcome to the front line of legal warfare. This isn’t a blog. It’s a constitutional armory built for one mission: Expose fraud. Assert rights. Dismantle unlawful authority. Every court case. Every government action. Every so-called law— only holds power if you consent. And we’re here to make…

  • The Consent Trap Series

    By: Joel Stephen Mattson How Jurisdiction, Consent, and Hidden Contracts Are Used to Steal Your Rights Welcome to The Consent Trap Series — the most important legal awakening you’ll ever read. This isn’t legal theory. This is the hard truth about how millions of people are stripped of their rights every year by courts that…

  • Templates and Tools: How to File Your Notice of Non-Consent

    By: Joel Stephen Mattson Once you realize you’re standing in an administrative court, the next step is to take action. This article gives you ready-to-use tools to assert your rights, withdraw consent, and demand your case be heard in a constitutional court of record. Below are templates and step-by-step instructions to help you take immediate…

  • The Magistrate Act and the Affidavit That Exposes Unlawful Imprisonment

    By: Joel Stephen Mattson Every year, tens of thousands of people are railroaded into jails and prisons not by law, not by due process, but by bureaucratic procedure, prosecutorial fraud, and unconstitutional shortcuts. Most of them have no idea that the court which imprisoned them had no jurisdiction — and that the key to their…

  • Article III, Section 2, Clause 1: The Clause That Nullifies Most Courtrooms

    By: Joel Stephen Mattson There’s a clause in the Constitution so powerful, so ignored, and so weaponized against tyranny that most attorneys never speak of it. But when a Pro Se warrior invokes it — properly, on the record — it cuts through courtroom fraud like a blade through paper. That clause is Article III,…

  • Why Pro Se Warriors Are Feared

    By: Joel Stephen Mattson They fear the Pro Se warrior because he’s not bought, not bound, and not blind. He’s the one figure in the courtroom they can’t predict, can’t manipulate, and can’t silence. He is a rogue element in a tightly controlled system. The moment a man walks into court and represents himself with…

  • Why Pro Se Warriors Are the System’s Worst Fear

    By: Joel Stephen Mattson They told you the law was too complicated for the average person. That if you stepped into court without an attorney, you were doomed to fail. But what they didn’t tell you — what they couldn’t afford for you to discover — is that a Pro Se litigant armed with truth,…

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