What is common law? In its simplest form CL is the law that the people use between and among themselves in everyday life. It isn't governmental statue or code law. Wikipedia says it well - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law - when they say: "Common law (also known as judicial precedent or judge-made law, or case law) is that body of law derived from judicial decisions of courts and similar tribunals." Why is it said well in this quote? Because the "similar tribunals" can include non-governmental "courts" as well as those set up and administered by Government.

The danger in America is that we the people forget that we can overturn statute and code law through jury nullification. Jury nullification can overturn and overrule any statute or code law in America. This is something that Germany doesn’t have. They have no jury nullification. The German jury has to make their JUDGMENTS according to statute law.

Here is the part where Obama may have been a little correct. If the American jury doesn’t pick up and use their ability to change or remove statute law, what’s the difference? There might be none. But before you can use something, you have to know that it exists, and how to force it into play.

Yes. We really consent to be governed. How do we consent? Here's how.

A friend reminded me that California doesn't recognize the common law. Common law is law between and among the people, not legal law of the Government, not legal law that tells us all the things we legally can do and can’t do in our lives. My friend is right on, and so is California, along with other States that don't recognize common law.

What does common law have to do with it? Common law is above legal law. Consider the 6th and 7th Amendments where we can take any man/woman to court, in jury trial, for any infraction they have done against us, or for ANYTHING WE MIGHT CALL AN INFRACTION EVEN THOUGH IT WOULDN’T BE CONSIDERED SO NORMALLY.

A jury trial is a trial between the people. It is a trial that is outside of legal law if we want it to be. It is a common law trial. The law encyclopedia, Corpus Juris Secundum, says in volume 25, section 344, that Federal District courts are courts of record. A court of record power among the people. It proceeds under common law, not statute or code law, not LEGAL law. The tribunal is independent of the magistrate.

What in the world is the tribunal? The tribunal is the group of PEOPLE that takes part in the trial. It is the accuser, the one being accused, and the jury who are the judges. It is NOT the magistrate, the legal judge who we normally think of as being the judge. It isn’t any legal entity like a cop, a State or Federal official. It doesn’t have anything to do with an AGREEMENT of representation between any people.

The magistrate, who we normally think of as the judge, isn’t any more than a referee in the trial, to make sure proceedings are carried out in an orderly process. Because of this, the State doesn’t have anything to do with a common law trial, doesn’t recognize it, so to speak. Yet it stands stronger than any legal law.