states, counties, cities, and sheriffs operate not as true governments but as corporate franchises under color of law. What appears as lawful authority is instead commercial administration, where statutes function like corporate bylaws. Through birth certificates, licenses, and parens patriae, people are reduced to ens legis fictions and compelled into adhesion contracts without consent. The entire structure is fraud by design—de facto corporations masquerading as de jure government. Fraud vitiates all it touches, rendering the system void from inception and without legitimacy