This is a thread about Self Government.
Americans are going to need to learn how to be self governing, and all that it implies, in order to ween themselves from the Marxist social and political system that they were born into. They are going to have to learn how to reestablish de jure and Constitutional bodies politic in each state in order for governments, at all levels, to eliminate their Marxist activities, and the dependence that they foster.
The Great Awakening requires a spiritual awakening as well as a political and social awakening. Common Law is the manifestation of the cultural unity of a people. It extends from the Creator to lawful Bodies Politic through a people's customs and usages. The NWO has been working on dismantling the strongest of these national identifying qualities for generations, even before the publication of that declaration of War in 1848: the Communist Manifesto.
#1 - God/Natural Law >#2 - Body Politic/Custom & Usage Law (common Law) > #3 - Law of Man/Government/Ruler/Equity Law/Law of Commerce.
If one is asking permission from government, one is acting according to #3 and governed by it law, not by right under #'s 1&2.