Synopsis Memorandum of Law

The following laws, statutes and treaties are the Supreme Law of the Land

1) U.S. Const. Bill of Rights, Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Thomas Jefferson in his 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association. In it, Jefferson declared that when the American people adopted the establishment clause they built a “wall of separation between the church and state.”

2) Title 42, United States Code, Section 2000bb- re-established the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, Public Law 107 Stat. 1488. See U.S. v. Christie, 9th Cir. 2016- RFRA supplies a rule of decision in cases where a person finds himself in the unfortunate position of needing to choose between following his faith and following the law. "In general," RFRA provides, sincere religious objectors must be given a pass to defy obligations that apply to the rest of us, if refusing to exempt or to accommodate them would impose a substantial burden on their sincere exercise of religion. 42 U.S.C. 2000bb-1(a).

3) Matthew 6:24- No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

4) Title 26, United States Code, Section 508(c)(1)(A) established a Mandatory Exception from the application for 501(c)(3) status for “churches, their integrated auxiliaries, and conventions or associations of churches.

5) Title 26, United States Code, Section 6033(a)(3)(i and iii) established a Mandatory exception from filing returns for “churches, their integrated auxiliaries, and conventions or association of churches and the exclusively religious activities of any religious order.”

6) 1 Corinthians 3:16- Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.

7) 1 Esdras 8:22- I command you also, that ye require no tax, nor any other imposition, of any of the priests, or Levites, or holy singers, or porters, or ministers of the temple, or of any that have doings in this temple, and that no man have authority to impose any thing upon them.”

8) 2 Corinthians 5:20- We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.

9) U.S. Const. Art III, Section 2, ¶ 2- In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make. See Tab 1, U.S. Const.

10) Title 28, United States Code, Section 1603- Foreign State-defined as an entity created not under the laws of the United States, or of a State or a third party government.

11) Public Law 97-280, October 4, 1982, 96 Stat. 1211- Whereas the Bible, the Word of God, has made a unique contribution in shaping the United States as a distinctive and blessed nation and people; Whereas deeply held religious convictions springing from the Holy Scriptures led to the early settlement of our Nation; Whereas Biblical teachings inspired concepts of civil government that are contained in our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States; Whereas many of our great national leaders-among them Presidents Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, and Wilson-paid tribute to the surpassing influence of the Bible in our country's development, as in the words of President Jackson that the Bible is "the rock on which our Republic rests"

12) Laws and Customs of War on Land, October 18, 1907, Article 56- The property of municipalities, that of institutions dedicated to religion, charity and education, the arts and sciences, even when State property, shall be treated as private property. All seizure of, destruction or willful damage done to institutions of this character, historic monuments, works of art and science, is forbidden, and should be made the subject of legal proceedings.

13) General Army Orders No.: 100, The Lieber Code of 1863, Article 34- As a general rule, the property belonging to churches, to hospitals, or other establishments of an exclusively charitable character, to establishments of education, or foundations for the promotion of knowledge, whether public schools, universities, academies of learning or observatories, museums of the fine arts, or of a scientific character such property is not to be considered public property in the sense of paragraph 31; but it may be taxed or used when the public service may require it.

14) Treaty on the Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions and Historic Monuments, August 26, 1935. Article 1- The historic monuments, museums, scientific, artistic, educational and cultural institutions shall be considered as neutral and as such respected and protected by belligerents. The same respect and protection shall be due to the personnel of the institutions mentioned above. The same respect and protection shall be accorded to the historic monuments, museums, scientific, artistic, educational and cultural institutions in time of peace as well as in war; Art. 2. The neutrality of, and protection and respect due to, the monuments and institutions mentioned in the preceding Article, shall be recognized in the entire expanse of territories subject to the sovereignty of each of the Signatory and Acceding States, without any discrimination as to the State allegiance of said monuments and institutions. The respective Governments agree to adopt the measures of internal legislation necessary to insure said protection and respect.

15) International Organizations Immunities Act, December 9, 1945, Section 2(b)- International organizations, their property and their assets, wherever located, and by whomsoever held, shall enjoy the same immunity from suit and every form of judicial process as is enjoyed by foreign governments, except to the extent that such organizations may expressly waive their immunity for the purpose of any proceedings or by the terms of any contract.

16) U.S Const. Article VI, ¶ 2.- The Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary withstanding. See Tab 1, U.S. Const., Art VI, ¶ 2.

17) Ware v. Hylton, 3 Dall. 199; 1 Cond. Rep cited in Cases Decided in the Courts of the United States, as to the Obligation and Construction of Treaties. “Whenever a right grows out of, or is protected by, a treaty, it prevails against all laws, or decisions of the courts of the states, and whoever may have the right under the treaty, is protected.”

18) United States v. Bishop, 412 U.S. 346 (1973)-Good faith reliance upon the existing decisions of the Supreme Court or the Published Laws of the United States terminates Mens Rea and any presumption of willfulness in violating the laws of the United States. See also James v. U.S., 366 U.S. 213 (1961) and Lambert v. California, 355 U.S. 255 (1957).

19) Hale v. Henkel, 201 U.S. 43 (1906). The individual may stand upon his constitutional rights as a citizen. He is entitled to carry on his private business in his own way. His power to contract is unlimited. He owes no duty to the State or to his neighbors to divulge his business, or to open his doors to an investigation, so far as it may tend to criminate him. He owes no such duty to the State, since he receives nothing therefrom, beyond the protection of his life and property. His rights are such as existed by the law of the land long antecedent to the organization of the State, and can only be taken from him by due process of law, and in accordance with the Constitution. Among his rights are a refusal to incriminate himself, and the immunity of himself and his property from arrest or seizure except under a warrant of the law. He owes nothing to the public so long as he does not trespass upon their rights.

20) Boyd v. U.S., 116 U.S. 616 (1886) The Trustees of a Trust have all the power necessary to carry out the obligations which they assume. Their consulting services and records are not subject to review of subpoena.” See also Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. U.S., 251 U.S. 385(1920).

21) Federal Crop Insurance Corporation v. Merrill, 332 U.S. 380, 384 (1947) - Whatever the form in which the Government functions, anyone entering into an arrangement with the Government takes the risk of having accurately ascertained that he who purports to act for the Government stays within the bounds of his authority….and this is so even though, as here, the agent himself may have been unaware of the limitation upon his authority.”