Help Me Anons! The Organic Act of 1871 (see link) from my reading, does not contain the words "United States Corporation.' The Act is shady AF, but where can I find the authority that Congress created a "Corporation of the United States" or "the United States Corporation." Thanks
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It didn't and it doesn't. That's what smacks you in the eyes when you read it. No such creation. The allegation is based on lots and lots of "but what this really means" style of argument, contrary to what the act itself says...which is nothing to do with establishing a corporation in the commercial sense. It "incorporates" the city of Washington as occupying the District of Columbia. Just as any other city is "incorporated" into an entity with a legal existence. No other meaning.
The fact that the united states federal government has a DUNS d&b number shows that it is indeed incorporated.
https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.government_of_the_united_states.b7a10c3efed8e705e9ea6611ad971dbe.html
That does not however mean that it necessarily became that way in 1871.
The organic act of 1801 did however incorporate the city of Washington DC
Having a DUNS number doesn't prove it's incorporated. I used to work for a company that did government contract work and they required everyone bidding to have a DUNS number. It was just the system they used and because of that they had a number in the system as well so that bidders could reference that number.
Have you ever applied for a DUNS number? You do not get one without being a corporate entity or other licensed place business. Fact remains, the federal government is incorporated. Many municipalities do it, why do you think its not possible for a larger government entity to do so?
28 U.S. Code § 3002 - Section 15 A
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/3002
There are federal corporations. Page 15 of this doc claims to list them all. But note, they aren't really corporations... they are chartered entities that are called corporations.
https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/RL30365.pdf
The link you posted is just a list of definitions to clarify what the code refers to when it uses certain words. It doesn't "define the US as a corporation" broadly, it just defines what the code means when it uses the term "United States". It only applies in the context of that code, which only outlines the procedures for federal debt collection. People can owe money to a federal corporation (the Tennessee Valley Authority is one example) and that code explains how the federal government connects those debts.
Even courts will have a DUNS because they have to engage in commerce for things like buying toilet paper, operating bank accounts, paying their employees.
It only shows that the U.S. government has a Dun & Bradstreet number. This website has clearly squeezed a description of the U.S. government into a business model template, for the sake of populating a template.
There is no issue over the fact that Washington DC is incorporated (i.e., created as a legal entity for debts and services owing or due). The point is that it is not a private corporation.
DeathRayDesginer Anything that is incorporated is in the end a private entity. The Republic of the United States is a public entity. It has a Constitution for governing, and requires all states which are public entities to follow suit. So anything that isn't a public entity defined by law, in other words the US Constitution is a private entity.
We The People, Constitutional Republic equals public. Anything else is private.
Cities are incorporated all the time. They are not private entities. "Incorporation" means only that they are constituted as a legal entity according to charters or similar documents. Legal, as in being liable for cause or debt. Cities are public entities according to state or federal law as applicable.