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Organizing your County’s Assembly or Committee of Safety

​​​The Purpose of Assemblies

Assemblies or Committees of Safety Are the Governing Body of the People at the County Level

Prior to the Declaration of Independence, the people living on the land we know today as, America, were governing themselves and redressing their grievances to their appointed governing officials, through the body politic called Committees of Protection, Correspondence and Safety…or, Assemblies. These bodies, made up of the citizens of the county or township for which they represented, were the lawful government on the land. The founders of this nation enshrined this government by, and for the people, in the 1st Amendment of the Constitution.

In 1863, under the Lieber Code (EO #100), Lincoln stopped self-governance of the people, by putting the country under Martial Law. The People, in Assembly, could not meet to handle their governmental affairs. The power of the people to derive their governance from the consent of the people, was taken from them. The people were now subject to the executive power of the president and his military. Even after the Civil War, the assemblies did not return to their original standing. The Republic form of governance had come to a screeching halt.

The good news is that the power to the people has been restored. In 2010, people began organizing assemblies / Committees of Safety, and giving notice to the US CORPORATION that they were lawfully claiming their standing on the land – as the representative government for the people of their county.

To Learn how to claim the lawful status for your county, and return self-governance to the people of your county, please study the steps and documents below.

CLICK HERE to Learn more about the Committees of Safety and their Correspondence with Common Law

FOLLOW EACH STEP BELOW TO ORGANIZE YOUR COUNTY ASSEMBLY:

MEET FOR REGULAR, IN-PERSON MEETINGS
1.  Gather in-person with people from your county for regular meetings. The frequency of your meetings should be based on the needs of your Committee of Safety (Assembly) and issues you are working to resolve in your county.
2.  Take official minutes of each meeting. (See sample here “virginia dejure assembly minutes_6.18.24” attached.)
3.  Members should bring two others with them to each meeting, growing the assembly quickly.

ELECT ASSEMBLY OFFICERS
1.  At the 2nd or 3rd meeting, and using the process for making motions outlined in Roberts Rules, elect an interim moderator, scribe and peace officer or bailiff. These positions should be held for 90 days, after which another election for these positions should be held to include the newest members of the assembly. These positions will then be held for one year. Record these elections in your meeting minutes.
2.  The moderator will run the meeting according to Roberts Rules of Order.
3.  The scribe will be responsible for taking official minutes of each meeting and keeping a record of the minutes.
4.  The bailiff or peace officer is responsible for keeping order at the meeting. If the moderator is unable to maintain an orderly meeting, because of unruly attendees, the bailiff should step in and neutralize the situation, or remove any one that is disruptive. The bailiff should also read the Bivens statement at the beginning of each meeting. (Click here to see “assembly officer responsibilities” and “Bivens Statement” ).

GROW YOUR ASSEMBLY
1.  You want to have as many people as possible in your county, participating in the assembly. This will require each member inviting others to join each week.
2.  If everyone brings just one new person each week, the assembly will grow very quickly and will be able to support the efforts of governing the county.
3.  You will eventually want to have enough people to start forming petit and grand juries. These will be responsible for setting up common law courts.

GIVE NOTICE OF YOUR ASSEMBLY / GAIN DE JURE STATUS
This step is key to making your assembly a lawful, de jure body.  Your assembly will not be a lawful, governing body, if this step is not taken. It is what sets you apart from other assemblies or groups. It is what allows you to “throw off such Government and provide new guards for their future security”.

Maxim of Law: First in line is first in time. If you are lawfully recognized by following the steps below, you will be able to replace the current corporate de facto government who is operating under the color of law. There can be only one de jure assembly in the county. This step will give you lawful standing.

Giving Notice means to declare that you are no longer going to consent to the de facto’s system of tacit consent and slavery. Like the Declaration of Independence of 1776, the people of your county are going to “declare the causes which impel you to [the] separation” of your county government. This is done by recording your County Assembly Settlement Covenant on the land and in the ‘water’ – the maritime court.

Step #1 – County Settlement Covenant Preamble (please find this in the files above – “county_settlement_cov_preamble__courthouse_steps_
newspaper”)

Your county must be lawfully “settled”. There are 2 ways this can be accomplished.  Your Committee of Safety or CoS, (which is what your county assembly is called) can choose which one of the Options below works best for your CoS Assembly.

Once you have your Covenant of Settlement ready (you’ve read through it and edited it with your county name and appropriate information), you will need to email it to the state moderator and scribe, so they can print copies of it and ready it for you, putting the Virginia State Jural Assembly seal on it and the signatures of the State Moderator and our Chief Justice or Scribe.

Your CoS will then continue the process doing one of the two Options below:

Option One: Read the Preamble, & Article I (attached in the files section at the top of this page), on YOUR county’s courthouse steps.

  • Meet with at least three (3) members of your CoS at your county courthouse, during business hours (i.e. Monday at 1:30 pm). You must go to the courthouse steps three weeks in a row, at the same day and time each week. Each time you go to the courthouse steps, you will read this document (The Preamble & Article 1) three times in a row. You will read every word from beginning to end. You can spread this out between three members present, giving each a chance to read through the Preamble & Article 1, one time. It doesn’t matter if there are people around you. The law of witnesses applies here, so if you have three people doing the reading, that fulfills this law, and an additional audience is not needed. But you must be on or near the front of the courthouse when you read it.
  • You will need at least 3 people to witness that you read the Preamble & Article 1. It can be anyone, including you, or even someone you don’t know, who heard your reading. After reading the Preamble & Article 1 three times, each of the 3 witnesses must sign and date the document with their first and middle name. You can record this by turning the one-page Preamble over and drawing two (2) vertical lines to create 3 columns on the back side of the last page. This is where the 3 witnesses will sign and date each week. Write “County Committee of Safety Announcement’ with the date & time of the reading, and sign under it. You should have three signatures for each week’s reading  – one column per each week’s reading.
  • Reading the Preamble & Article 1 on the courthouse steps must be repeated for 3 weeks in a row. You will need to choose the same day and time to read on the courthouse steps for the 3-consecutive weeks total. However, it CAN be 3 different members who do the reading each week.
  • We suggest recording your sessions at the steps as it may need to be used later depending on your county situation.

PLEASE NOTE: WHILE IS IT NOT REQUIRED, it is strongly encouraged that assemblies hang the one-page Preamble & Article 1 on bulletin boards around the county, at libraries, or the post office, or in restaurants. Not only does this more than fill the requirement for posting  to the public, it gets the word out that the assembly is organized and that you are looking for people to join!

Step #2- Recording the County Settlement Covenant in your County

After you have completed Option 1 or 2 above, you will do the following:

  1. Remember, you should have already emailed the Virginia State Jural Assembly so there is plenty of time to get your 12-page Settlement of Covenant mailed to you. You will also want to have ordered an embossed seal for your county. This is a design that you and your County CoS will develop together.
  2. Once you receive the Settlement of Covenant (SoC) from the Virginia State Jural Assembly, read it to make sure all wording is correct with your county name and date. Be sure the Virginia State Jural Assembly Seal and signatures from the state Moderator and Scribe (or Chief Justice) have been applied.
  3. Your county Scribe and Moderator will also need to sign and date the document on the appropriate lines, which are found on the last page. Also, emboss the document with your county embosser/seal, someplace near the signature lines (you should have already prepared by ordering the embosser/seal). If you have not received an embosser in time, the seal from the Virginia State Jural Assembly will have to do.
  4. Make three copies of your Settlement of Covenant (SoC). Keep the original with your county scribe.
  5. Customize and print a cover sheet for your documents to be submitted in the county court or recording office. (A cover sheet template is attached in the files above.)
  6. Take the copy, with cover sheet now attached, to your county’s clerk of courts. Make a note all names of the people you deal with at the court, in case someone gives you a hard time.
  7. Find the civil division. When you go to the counter, SAY, ” I’d like to file this document on the public record in a miscellaneous file” or another way to say it would be, ”I need to open a miscellaneous docket.” They may be resistant or misunderstand. (The entire purpose of this step, is so that the document can be viewed online, county and statewide.)
  8. Do not let them convince you that you are filing a civil case in their courts. This is not what you are doing and it is more expensive. You are recording the document, or filing a document so that it is on the public record and can be viewed by the public. Make sure you get a copy back that includes the DOCKET NUMBER, if you end up creating a misc docket. Keep this for your records.
  9. NOTE: For future reference, if you get a miscellaneous Docket number, you may file additional documents in that file for your Committee of Safety, at any time and at no additional cost. Be strong….be patient, be kind, and be persistent!

If you are SUCCESSFUL in getting your document on the public record in your county, proceed to the steps below.

  1. Get TWO ORIGINAL STAMPED CERTIFIED copies. The clerk will file the original into the court and then ask them when you can come back to get (two) certified copies. (it usually takes a day or two.)
  2. Next day (or when they are available), go back to the records room and collect certified copy from the records room – $1/sheet and there will be a court seal on the doc – You will need two certified copies. One copy goes to the county commissioners and the other goes into the assembly record.
  3. Take certified copy to the county commissioners meeting. This will be handed to them in person. (See Step #3 below.)

If you are UNSUCCESSFUL in getting your document filed in your county through the Clerk of Courts office, you can either record the paperwork in person by traveling to a neighboring county, or mail it by registered mail, to a county in the state that is dejure. There has to be at least ONE dejure county in each state, because each state is required to keep an Article 3 court open for the state. This county will be the recorder for the Article 3 court. While we can’t confirm which county holds the article 3 court, we can confirm that Stafford, Franklin and Orange counties are friendly, and that they will record. Contact the state assembly if you need any assistance with this process of mailing to the court.

Step #3 – Read the Preamble & Article 1 into the minutes of the County Commissioners Meeting

  1. You will attend the next County Commissioners meeting at the end of the three week period that the ad is running in the newspaper (or you have finished reading the covenant preamble on the courthouse steps for the third week). Be sure to get your readers lined up and on the meeting speaking schedule. You will need to take one of your two certified copies of your Covenant recorded by the court with you to the County Board Commissioner’s meeting. If you have not been able to obtain the certified copy by this time, then you will need to wait to attend the meeting until you do have the certified copy.
  2. The first person to stand will recite a prayer (this will help to disarm the commissioners) – for example, “we come before you in peace and pray that what we say today will help you know that we want only good for this county and this board and that we are here to support the people of this county.”
  3. There are three parts to the reading, so you could split it up for three people:
  • The first person could read the prayer, and announce you are there to give notice on behalf of the people of your county
  • The second person could read the Preamble
  • The third person could read Article 1. He or she would then hand the full 12-page (certified) covenant to the bailiff, or justice of the Board. Once the doc is given to the bailiff, then turn around to the audience and announce “the _______County Committee of Safety is now lawfully recognized on the land, making our county dejure on the land. The people of this county now have constitutional control over the affairs of the county.”
  • Make sure you make a recording of the whole process so that you have it for the record.

After you have finished the three steps above, you will wait 30 days for rebuttal AFTER the document is filed with the court. Your CoS Scribe / Secretary will then make a note of no rebuttal after 30 days. The Covenant will then go into the meeting minutes at the next assembly meeting.

Go to https://www.awakenandunite.com/common-law-2 to watch a video of Lorain County, Ohio assembly walking through this process. It’s really cool!

CELEBRATE your success up to this point, and then it will be time to get to work!!

NOW THE WORK OF STRUCTURING YOUR COUNTY GOVERNMENT BEGINS!
After your county has settled its de jure assembly, the assembly will be able to direct your elected officials how to govern you, audit their books and processes, and issue redress of grievances. The assembly can also form petit and grand juries for pursuing legal recourse through common law processes.

The three documents listed in this section will stay in your assembly files and records. These will not be recorded with the defacto. You have already completed the notice process and so the rest of these documents are not their business. However, they are for your protection. Everything will now be held by the body of the assembly / Committee of Safety for your county.

Documents Needed for the operation of your Committee of Safety (Assembly):


1. Oaths to the Assembly and Grand Juries
These are an internal assembly document that you will keep on file with your CoS. (See “Jural Covenant of Office”, “Declaration of Unalienable Rights” and “Declaration of Independence, Circa 2024 in the files section above.)

2. Assembly By-Laws or Operations and Functions
Write your assembly by-laws. This is an internal document for your assembly that outlines the structure for your county assembly government. This will be the starting place for how you will structure your county government. It will be a living document that will be edited and changed as your assembly grows, and as your assembly begins to take the place of the corporate government. This is how you want your county government to look on paper.  Start basic and small, but have a vision of your county’s potential. (See attached example in the file section. This is not a completed example, but can give an idea of how to structure this document.)
It can include:
•  Officers of assembly and duties (Government positions you are going to fill)
•  Requirements for assembly membership
•  Duties, responsibilities and powers
•  Primary Functions Scope
•  Responsibilities of Sheriff
•  Responsibilities of Grand Jury
•  Responsibilities of Militia
•  Removal of members
•  Other governing policies

3. County Bilateral Social Compact
This document is needed as a protection against the Buck Act which made all prosecutors on the land, the highest form of law in the county. The signatures on this document form a firewall between them and the de facto – this insulates them from the de facto prosecutor. Because the sheriff was put on the shelf with the Buck Act, this paves the way for him to claim his authority back, and to work with the assemblies and grand juries. (COMING SOON Click here to see the Bilateral Social Compact template for New Mexico)

As always, the state assembly is here to support you and your county. Please lean on us with questions or concerns. We will be happy to walk you through this process and attend your first county meetings, if needed. The vision may feel far off, but the effort to set up your county governments is near and within reach! Trust in yourselves and your God! He will sustain and guide you.