- General Assembly.
- International Business Assembly.
- State Courts.
- State Assembly Militia.
Anna von Reitz refers to these parts as The Four Pillars.
State Governments are being reconstructed before counties because the States are in international jurisdiction and have access to treaties and the Constitutions.
The Federation has provided the States with a list of recommended committees. The work of the State Government will be done by committees.
The Michigan Assembly (TMA) began meeting as a General Assembly in March of last year (2023).
It also established the International Business Assembly that same month.
As of the first of this year, 2024, TMA had the following committees in some form of operation:
Treasurer.
Recording Secretary Group with a Lead Recording Secretary.
SIA Coordinator. Sign In America was an early Federation-promoted effort to encourage people to learn basic knowledge about Land Jurisdiction Government.
Technology Committee, which maintains the TMA website.
Litigation Committee, which helps people who are having difficulties with Sea Jurisdiction subcontractors.
Two Study Groups which meet regularly over the Internet. They typically read through Anna von Reitz materials and other resources she recommends.
There were two attempts to get an Outreach Committee going during 2023, but the first champion left the Assembly and the second was removed from the Assembly by the Coordinator.
An Education Committee was established in May, 2023, but only met a few times and has not produced much of anything.
The Coordinator Committee basically runs everything. It consists of the Michigan Coordinator, a small number of Co-Coordinators, and the people leading the groups and committees, above.
As of the first of this year, 2024, TMA had not established these as operating committees:
General Education Committee, which should be producing educational materials and programs for the General Membership and Public.
New Member Orientation Committee, which should be providing support and educational guidance for New Members to overcome prior indoctrination, fear, and dependency issues.
Instead of that, the Coordinator provides New Members with a "TMA Roadmap" when he invites them to join the Assembly. That document contains the publicly-available list of recommended committees, as well as the rules he has established for the Assembly during the "Assembling Phase," and it forms part of the "agreement" he asks each New Member to sign.
Since December, the Coordinator has been holding training sessions with Members during General Assembly meetings, which includes packaged training materials from the Federation and information he determines to be necessary and appropriate. His stated intention is to use these materials to train New Members going forward.
The Coordinator also frequently posts on his "Official" TMA public Telegram social media channel various links to Anna von Reitz articles that he is reading. They are typically at least six months old because he is personally that far behind in reading them.
One of the Co-Coordinators regularly holds a public Internet meeting with people who are interested in reclaiming their status as a Michiganian and perhaps joining TMA. That happens twice a month.
Events Committee, which should be planning and running events and meetings. Instead, the Coordinator and Co-Coordinators do those things.
(Records Committee), which should be assisting and overseeing Recording Secretaries. In fairness, this may actually be operating under a different name, mentioned above, but there are no meeting minutes published for Assembly Members or the Public to read.
Treasury Committee, which should be assisting and overseeing Treasury functions. As stated above, there is a Treasurer, and the Coordinator oversees what he is doing. Since the Coordinator role will go away after the Assembling Phase, this is not really a committee and is simply one man acting as Treasurer.
Oversight Committee, which should be providing general oversight and a forum for complaints.
Ombudsman Committee, which should be providing conflict resolution and arbitration services.
Vetting Committee, which should be approving membership and reviewing candidate eligibility. The Coordinator does this as the "Vetting Officer."
General Elections Committee, which should be handling notices and candidate publications, setting dates, promoting participation in elections, providing ballots, poll watchers, and ballot security.
Office of the Marshal at Arms, which should be ensuring safety and decorum at all meetings and events, taking care of the flag, and working with the Elections Committee to secure ballots.
The International Business Standing Committee consists of seven people who were nominated during a General Assembly meeting and elected as "State Citizens" by those Members who were present "raising their hands". The Coordinator established this committee in case the Federation asks for it to take action. It is unknown if this committee has done anything because no meeting minutes or work products have been published.
The Litigation Committee is the only Jural Assembly Standing Committee in operation. It has been quite busy because several Assembly Members and Michiganians have been dealing with personal legal troubles. Three Assembly Members spent time in jail, including the Coordinator. Another Assembly Member was actually arrested during a public Assembly Internet meeting. Many of these troubles resulted from Michiganians antagonizing uninformed government-services subcontractor employees by trying to exercise their rights.
The Militia Special Purpose Committee has not been established at all.
The Coordinator's strategy for setting up The Four Pillars has been to read through Anna von Reitz articles, and more recently to view recorded training sessions of topics he considers to be important for Assembly Members. The General Assembly read as a group approximately 48 of 59 sections of The Jural Assembly Handbook during eleven (11) sessions spanning an elapsed period of 23 weeks. That handbook was compiled in 2019 and consists of previously-published Anna von Reitz articles.
General Assembly meetings are held over the Internet. Most Members who attend just listen to the Coordinator and his various leaders talk. Very few Members have been assigned to committees or are actually doing any work.
One Member was asked to serve on the Education Committee when it was first formed in May, and in December learned people must be in the General Assembly for at least one year before they can be on a committee. That Member was subsequently removed from the committee for that reason alone.
There is, and has been, no published estimate of when the various committees will be seated and begin learning how to do their jobs.
In the meantime, the Coordinator and his core group of leaders continue to run everything. The rest of the Assembly Members show up and, for the most part, spectate, similar to the way children attend public schools and people attend most churches.
The previous Michigan Assembly was disbanded by the Federation in mid-2021, and this current version began operation during the first half of 2022. The current Coordinator was a Co-Coordinator of that failed Assembly, and he justifies his tight control of the current Assembly by citing the bad behavior of his predecessors.
The classic business story of The Three Envelopes gives the following advice: 1) Blame your predecessor, 2) Reorganize, and 3) Make three new envelopes. The TMA Coordinator seems to have relied on the First Envelope for the past couple of years. He may have opened the Second Envelope in November when he "called a time out" for training. Given the lack of progress in establishing Michigan's Four Pillars, it may be time to open that Third Envelope.
Okay, that last paragraph was opinion. I couldn't resist.
UPDATE, May 13, 2024...
This recent article provides more detail about assemblies and the Pillars...
Article 4810, Assemblies Are Not Committees, May 12, 2024.
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