Neither You or I Are A “person” https://www.craftylifestyle.co.uk/uploads/2/3/2/8/23282466/neither_you_or_i_are_a_person.pdf
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Neither You or I Are A “person” https://www.craftylifestyle.co.uk/uploads/2/3/2/8/23282466/neither_you_or_i_are_a_person.pdf
You and I are a natural person. Unfortunately, when it comes to the Leige-Lord (i.e. legal) system, the vast majority of "persons" in this system are artificial persons - otherwise known as corporations, trusts, partnerships, etc.
The etymology of the word comes from the Greek "Persona" however, which was defined as a character in a Greek stage play (comedy/tragedy). An "actor"!
It's also worth noting that we had a word for two or more called "people", but the legal system required the word "person" to maintain their subterfuge with "persons".
Not sure how this works in the US, but in Australia, UK etc (which makes me suspect also in the US, as the US constitution is essentially a codification of common law (the law of the land) that arose from British history), we are NOT natural persons, but living men and women.
Not familiar with the US dimensions of this. Possibly what you refer to as "natural persons" is the 'legal' (but not necessarily lawful) designation for a living human within the legal system, which indeed draws a distinction between a natural person and a legal person (corps, etc). Nonetheless, I think they are ALL still being controlled under the jurisdiction of maritime law.
From a common law perspective:
"Persons" are corporate entities, coming under the jurisdiction of maritime law, aka commercial law. When we are born and 'registered' with whatever corporation is operating disguised as govt or a govt body, a 'person' i.e. corporate entity is created, using our name.
It is that corporate entity that is affected and controlled via statute law, aka commercial law, derived from the Roman civil law.
But living men and women come under jurisdiction of the law of the land, common law.
When you interact with a govt agency, for example, which will be a registered corporation, you are interacting as that corporate entity created with the registration of your birth via the "birth certificate".
One key problem in the Western world today is that most folks are completely ignorant of this reality, and they live and function in a world where they identify with the corporate entity mimicking them, rather than as living men and women.
Legalese is funny. Take the word “drive.” It’s become modern vernacular to say “you drive a car” but it’s not technically true. Originally, technically, and legally speaking, driving refers to the profession of transporting goods by land. Think of cattle drivers. They drove cattle but they did so while riding on horses. Technically there are no truck drivers or taxi drivers, but rather, product drivers and human drivers who ride in the same automobile/car(ridge) they use to transport those products and humans.
According to MANY Supreme Court cases, the right to travel (aka, freedom of locomotion) on public roads via automobile is a Constitutional right that can only be curtailed via due process (i.e., conviction of a crime). The only people, technically, who are not constitutionally protected from laws that require a drivers license, are professional drivers. But alas, here we are.
"Passengers" is another one. They are assumed to be paying a fare to the "driver".