So the basic idea is this. In 1870 and 1871, congress created a corporation to administer DC, and outsourced the functions of government to it, essentially copying the constitution as a set of corporate bylaws overlaid over the original constitution. Gradually the government functions were transferred from the original authority of the states and to the outsourced corporation which had been established in England to operate in DC, and this process was accelerated with the creation of the federal reserve.

Here are the two best summaries I have read to describe how it occurred. Both have links to actual congressional records, placed in context with explanations. It's reading that requires attention, but we'll worth it if you want to dig.

First is teamlaw: http://teamlaw.net/Mythology-CorpUS.htm#dcoa1871

Second is Anna Von Reitz: https://mainerepublicemailreport.com/2021/01/16/misinformation-about-the-act-of-1871-is-an-ongoing-problem-part-2/

I personally think Trump is reconstituting the Old Republic even while he simultaneously devolved the Corp. as described by the first few entries in Patel Patriot's devolution series (https://www.devolution.link/), and that the upcoming financial crash will end up with any of the Corp's assets (like the military contracts and gear, national parks, territories, and of course DC itself) being transferred back to the Old Republic. I don't actually know that's what he's doing, but devolution is extremely well documented, and it seems to dovetail well with the impending bankruptcy of the federal reserve. And there were a number of interesting meetings between Trump and state legislators (no other president that I know of has reached out to state assembly members that I can remember) that I heard about in the news between Nov 2020 and Jan 2021.

Anyway, after a comment in a different post, I thought it was worth posting some of the more readable links regarding the whole "what's up with the 1871 Corp?" topic.

If anybody has real info on those meetings with state assemblies, and I don't mean the Rudy Giuliani & Jenna Ellis presentations but rather the Trump - state legislator direct meetings that I only heard about, I'd be interested. I'll be offline for a bit but will check the thread later. Cheers.