Individual sovereignty is the notion that each and everyone one of us are Kings and Queens. There is no one else above you other than your Creator, whomever or whatever you believe it to be.

As ruler of your own domain, what you decree, is law. This is your private law, no one else’s business but yours. However, when your private law conflicts with the private law of another, or when one sovereign injures another, then the procedures of common law are in place to settle the dispute.

The government is below the sovereign and only gets involved when requested. The sovereign is self governing. This is difficult for most to accept because we’re immersed in a world where we not only expect, but demand that government do all our thinking for us.

As simple as the above concept is to understand, it seems lost on our politicians who feel it is their duty to impose their private law onto everyone else by legislating them into public law.

As sovereigns, you have the right to do whatever you wish (private law), so long as it doesn't infringe on the rights, life, liberty or property of others. The philosophy that best describes a sovereign, is to "Live and Let Live" or "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you".  These of course are the basic philosophy of pretty much everyone you would bump into in the street.  How then, can we on the one hand, live our personal lives by that mantra, yet endorse a political system which allows public servants to impose their will on you when there has been no violation of anyone's unalienable rights?

Common Law expert Bill Thornton explains

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