At the end of the Civil war congress reconvened and passed what was called the United States Reorganization act of 1871, also known as the Act to provide a municipal government for the District of Columbia. However, this government was different; it was structured as a foreign owned CORPORATION and called the UNITED STATES! It even adopted the Republic constitution but changed only one word. They changed the word Constitution FOR the United States, to the Constitution OF the United States.

Therefore this change made the constitution a possession of the government corporation and NOT the possession of the people. The only power this government had was to govern over matters of COMMERCE within the District of Columbia. What we call STATE OF (YOUR STATE), is actually a SUB corporation of the UNITED STATES CORPORATION engaged in matters of commerce. This STATE is not to be confused with the Union State of (your State), which is part of the original pre-Civil war Republic. Therefore, the UNITED STATES (Corp) is foreign to the Union States as its geographic boundaries are restricted to the land area of the District of Columbia. This distinction has been recognized in numerous court cases before the U.S. Supreme court. Don't take our word for it, read from the book Cooperative Federalism by Gerald Brown, Ed.D.