Doctrines about the standing of the state and of peoples that claim their own authority: sovereign immunity, the domestic dependent nation status of American tribes, tribal sovereignty, the sovereign citizen movement and the French principle of laicism. A doctrine belongs here when its cited article describes a claim or limit of sovereignty or of the relation of state and religion. It excludes the protections of due process.
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Domestic dependent nations (Wikipedia)
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Georgia, Chief Justice of the United States John Marshall wrote that Native American peoples in the United States were "domestic dependent nations" whose relationship to the United States is like that of a "ward to its guardian".
Laicism (Wikipedia)
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Laicism (also laicity, from the Ancient Greek "λαϊκός" "laïkós", meaning "layperson" or "non-cleric") refers to a legal and political model based on the strict separation of religion and state.
Sovereign citizen movement (Wikipedia)
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Sovereign citizens have a pseudolegal belief system based on misinterpretations of common law, and claim not to be subject to any government statutes unless they consent to them.
Sovereign immunity (Wikipedia)
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Sovereign immunity, or crown immunity, is a legal doctrine whereby a sovereign or state cannot commit a legal wrong and is immune from civil suit or criminal prosecution, strictly speaking in modern texts in its own courts.
Tribal sovereignty in the United States (Wikipedia)
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Tribal sovereignty in the United States is the concept of the inherent authority of Indigenous tribes to govern themselves within the borders of the United States.
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