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Sovereign Citizen pseudolegal texts are not legitimate
legal texts and should not be read as such. They are,
however, closely related at the genre level and there
remains much to be gained from the further study of
Sovereign Citizen pseudolegal discourse. This article
and Griffin (2022) hopefully can provide a useful
starting point for future research in this area.

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