GENERAL ASSEMBLY
General Assembly Standing Pillar
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FOUR STANDING PILLARS/COMMITTEES
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TMA Four Standing Pillars
The Minnesota Assembly (TMA) is comprised of functions known as pillars. These pillars are necessary to maintain balanced support for TMA giving direction and establishing protocols used for TMA business and functions.
Minnesota has four Pillars, and each Pillar has its own area of focus and operation. The Four Minnesota Standing Pillars and their respective areas of operation are:
- The General Assembly Standing Pillar provides a discussion and decision forum for intrastate business and acts as a Committee-of-the-Whole to decide issues of general interest, conducts elections, and provides oversight for all TMA functions;
- The Jural Assembly Pillar provides the Court Service (including Court Venue, Jury Pool, Law Education, and Litigation Committees) and oversees the Coroner’s Office Committee, Sheriffs Committee, Land Patent Committee, Grand Jury, Trial Jury, and officials and functions of TMA Living Courts;
- The International Business Pillar conducts the international and interstate business of TMA;
- The Militia Assembly Pillar is focused on promoting public safety within the boundaries of Minnesota and is the "well-regulated" militia guaranteed to each State for its internal security.
Because we govern by Committee, each of our Four Standing Pillars operate as a "Standing Committee of the Whole" with smaller, more specialized focus committees operating within them to handle business.
TMA Pillar Standing Committees
Each of the Four Standing Pillars is made up of multiple Committees. These Committees are responsible for specific areas of TMA functions within each Pillar structure. Committees are made up of members who are living men and living women (wo/men) who have become American State Nationals (ASN) and American State Citizens (ASC). These wo/men have decided to take an active role in determining the establishment, direction, implementation and management of the overall TMA functions and procedures.
Structure and functions for each specific Committee shall be as described in this document. Committees shall be expected to meet as required to address issues under their prevue in a timely manner. In general meetings shall follow the protocol as outline here in.
Standing Committee Meetings, Committee Members and Expectations:
All committees shall meet as least once a month but are expected to meet as necessary to address any critical and/or time sensitive issues. Committee activities shall be reported at the Minnesota General Assembly Meeting.
Meetings are scheduled by the Committee Chair. All Committee members will be notified of dates and times and be provided with an agenda.
Living wo/men who are members in good standing with the TMA are eligible to join Committees. Members are volunteers who contribute their abilities, knowledge, and time to help ensure the smooth operation of Committees and Pillar structures. It is preferred to have an odd number of members, to aid in the voting process, but the total number of those members shall be determined by each Committee and the number of volunteers available.
Each Committee shall have a Chairman or Chairwoman, the Chair. Each of the Pillar Assemblies shall determine how their respective Committee Chairs shall be seated. The Committee Chair shall have the following responsibilities:
- Schedules, hosts and moderates Committee meetings;
- Sets and issues meeting agenda with allotted time schedule;
- Maintains meeting decorum;
- Ensures meeting notes and action items are recorded and distributed in a timely manner to the Committee members and the General Assembly Secretary.
As TMA has a "bottom up" structure, where we are all leaders in our own way. We need everyone to bring their best work, as many hands make light work!
Committee work can at times deal with conflicts of interest issues. When those issues are known, the Chair shall recuse himself/herself from any other Committee, or Chair position, dealing with the conflict.
When any group of people comes together, there will be different priorities, opinions, and styles of working. The following guidelines shall be used to help the Committee work to proceed smoothly, with minimal tension:
- Members are responsible through their own self-governing for knowing the agenda and being ready to contribute.
- Members are responsible through their own self-governing to consider how they present themselves – think first, approach with logic, and use common sense before acting or speaking.
- Establish realistic, specific, and attainable goals.
- Identify strengths in members.
- Support your opinions and ideas with facts.
- Feedback and commenting are encouraged but stay “on topic" and be respectful.
- Different schools of thought lead to creative solutions.
- Make sure everyone understands the problem, proposed solutions, and dissenters’ concerns.
- Pass moves only after careful consideration of all proposed solutions.
- Win-win collaborative results are always better than compromise.
- Practice The Golden Rule: Treat others and their ideas the way you would like to be treated.
- Commit to avoid the 3Rs (resentment, resistance, revenge) and the 3Cs (complaining, criticizing, and condemning); sarcasm and swearing sound unprofessional and can be misunderstood.
The Four Standing Pillars
Because we govern by Committee, each of the Four Pillars operates as a "Standing Committee of the Whole" with smaller more specialized focus committees operating within them to handle business.
FOUR STANDING PILLARS/COMMITTEES
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Please attend to the link below for the full document which also presents call-outs in the margin for editing notes:
https://1drv.ms/w/c/3659515b3dad2d80/EZzVO9JwM2hOjc3C1xqlpUMBrWwfPNbygCw7fmt9QJVcdA?e=Jzd1Zb
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- Written by: Jim Homyak
- Parent Category: General Assembly Standing Pillar
- Category: Prosperity Committee
Greetings Banking Committee!
Anna, our fiduciary on Alaska, delivered a riviting podcast on her Monday night channel event.
https://youtu.be/RA-Hy2Wjoc8?si=wa9iuTIxxYr-MXv5
We are 100% in charge of taking the lead to develop our state bank and link it to all our accounts and treasury functions. New content.
Unless Tech Committee can find another way from elsewhere in The American States Assemblies, we ourselves will be making that Banking Functionality come to life here -- to be linked conveniently into our new portal.
Feel free to bring your questions, comments, research, programming talent and project skills and raise your hand at any one of our business meetings. Ask questions. Roll up our sleeves.
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- Written by: Christopher B. Philippi
- Parent Category: General Assembly Standing Pillar
- Category: Website Committee
Jim & Chris Working Together
Notes:
- Info Jim needs:
- To know the screen size of your computer and whether you use hand-held devices or PC or Mac style of desktop or laptop.
- To know your level of comfort or proficiency learning new browser-based technology and your platform experience.
- To know your comfort with becoming a system admin, process operator or also a technical coordinator.
- You should spend a week to get familiar with TMA on MinnesotaAssembly. Land. Let's cover any Q & A needed between us.
- To know your schedule, and establish our schedule, so we can devise and attend 'screen sharing and webinars' which we will be creating to get things underway on the new platform. I want to get everyone trained on what a role can do.
- To know the screen size of your computer and whether you use hand-held devices or PC or Mac style of desktop or laptop.
- It seems best to set your browser to either 67% or 75% or 80% zoom level to be able to see much of the screens, eyesight/vision permitting.
- There is a complex amount of open source free software being used in this compendium of platforms:
- Use the admin backends of these platforms to go direct to database instead of going through front-end captcha checker.
- Joomla 6.0.4 (Content Management)
- Moodle 4.3 (Learning Management)
- Joomdle (joins the user accounts between Joomla and Moodle)
- Community Builder (social sharing)
- Breezing Forms (Data Collection Forms to build the 928s dynamically)
- Phoca PDF (print output to screen or PDF download)
- BS MyJSpace (ability to upload content attachments to AweSumNet)
- Linux (the root / base operating system)
- cPanel (high level control over the web domain)
- MySQL (database system)
- PHP 8.3 (scripting engine)
Goals:
- Transcribe from GoDaddy Site to Homyak's Development site at minnesotaassembly.land
- Jim hasn't actively transcribed since June 2024
- Every item on MinnesotaAssembly dot net needs to be reviewed an copied to ensure the latest release is available to minnesotaassembly.land
- Install Components onto AweSumNet that facilitate
- Meeting Rooms
- Video Conferencing
- Q & A from original site to create education
- After all the content is duplicated, then we can begin to replace GoDaddy
- MinnesotaAssembly.net has two videos on its home page concerning how governments work. We need to disect these videos to formulate Q & A Education Tools to teach people how the governments are supposed to be functioning.
- Chris, feel free to continue this.... direct me how I can help (Jim)
- After you have logged in, this is the link to the Education System
Challenges:
- The current site has a means for showing the first page of PDF documents -- then with a Page Turning button beneath. Lots of variations exist to accomplish this same effect. Jim has created one means here.
- Deciding if we can settle on a more manual back-end instead of using "drag-drop" limiters.
- Your preceived listing of needs, requirements, challenges, considerations belong here:
- Jim has not yet, nor ever, gotten fully logged in and up to speed with the existing GoDaddy
- Once Jim gets himself to such level, he can then work to obtain all of digital objects, artwork, icons, images to continue fashioning Joomla! 5 to replace GoDaddy. Plus a whole lot more.
- It is possible to implement a "menu reduction" project to include descriptive icons and less text. The current wireframe design of TMA is where we start when we are focused on committee, role, education, content, forms, data, organization, communications.
- Future ideas: Portal Usability, Documentation, Tutorials, 87 Counties
note Jim we are going to start with this court form
You don't have a pdf plugin, but you can download the pdf file.
files/C-95-FO%20Formal%20Order%20of%20Remedy_Sentencing%201.pdf
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- Parent Category: General Assembly Standing Pillar
- Category: The Minnesota Assembly
The Minnesota Assembly Portal System
The new Minnesota Assembly portal system v1.0 service center is set to display the Four Pillars as guided by The American States Assemblies educational materials.
- State General Assembly
- State Jural Assembly
- State International Business Assembly
- State Militia Assembly
General Announcement
The time is now to join together to train committee members to try out TMA Concept Web to interactively do our transcribing from our current website into the portal. We can now word process our content (outlines, presentations, images, links, references, templates, etc.) directly to the committee record. Once the committee approves and submits to record for consideration, the information goes into a buffer we all share.
As of May 27, 2024 all contents displayed by this system are suggested placeholders, meaning that we can change anything or everything to suit our needs.
This concept portal has many pointers back to the exising website to help committee members read, review and migrate the content.
Please be aware of the fact that we have yet to invite people from The Minnesota Assembly to login and begin to adapt from our current website to this new concept portal system.
At present we (The Assembly) have many people helping in the overall administrat/adjusting and managing of the website public website (via Go Daddy) and now today you can begin to see the future taking shape. We have established roles, groups and permissions to be able to share this workload with anyone who would volunteer to approach this with the required due dilligence along with us.
There are several components to this new portal:
- Front end and backend Joomla! 5.1 CMS (dubbed TMA Portal)
- Front end and backend Moodle (dubbed MAEOC Data Center)
- Middleware to join Joomla and Moodle (known as Joomdle)
- Single Sign-on capacility, meaning when you login to the portal you will also be logged in to the Data Center. When you logoff the Data Center, you may also be logged off the portal
- Be sure to have saved any editing sessions prior to logging off.
- Save your work often, as there can be no guarantee an active session won't be interrupted.
- Bare in mind, the doing of Government Works means we are here to add value, make a difference and serve the people.
There will be links to every thread of useful content regarding these huge topics. Members can all take part in changing those contents by editing the content options settings in the blog-like tabs in our system console. There is a link to System Console if you are logged in.
If you want to have your content and posts broken into several parts, an introduction and then a full length separate page, use the Read More span to insert a break. Fasten your seatbelts for a powerful ride.
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- Parent Category: General Assembly Standing Pillar
- Category: The Minnesota Assembly
Our all-new Minnesota Assembly Portal site has some commonly used modules already preconfigured. These include:
- Image (type: Custom), which holds the image beneath the menu. This is a Custom module that you can edit to change the image.
- Popular Tags (type: Tags - Popular), which will appear if you use tagging on your articles. Enter a tag in the Tags field when editing.
- Older Posts (type: Articles - Category), which lists out articles by categories.
- Ongoing Topics (type: Articles - Category), which lists out articles by the single category of your choice.
- Syndication (type: Syndication Feeds), which allows your readers to read your posts in a news reader.
- Login Form (type: Login), which allows your users to access restricted areas of the website.
- Integrated Meeting Rooms (committee, public, education, issues, general assembly).
- Off-site Links to your social media platforms and shared calendars.
- Conditional Content to help guide readers to the next item when they are up to speed.
Each of these modules has many options which you can experiment with in the Module Manager in our System Console. When you are logged in you can also select the edit icon in the top right corner which will take you to an edit screen for that module. Always be sure to save and close any module you edit.
The Minnesota Assembly v1.0 also includes many other modules we can incorporate in our platform systems. As we develop our site we may want to add more modules that we can find at the Joomla Extensions Directory.
Our all-new TMA Portal site has some commonly known categories already preconfigured. These include the extensive listing (below) but first...
One of the first phases of this work involved obtaining a listing of these pages to render as a new modules and categories in the new system. This following list is the SiteMap for the current website. These links will open browser tabs to the current Minnesota Assembly website. Soon we will have all of this content migrated into our new platform.
Subcategories
General Education Committee Content: 1
New Member Orientation Committee Content: 1
General Election Committee Content: 0
General Assembly Standing Committees Content: 0
When the people of our state decide to put committees together, this is where we can organize the effort
HELPDESK Content: 4
We are monitoring the inbox to respond within one full day.
James Allen Homyak, retired volunteer is our current HelpDesk tech. Use the link for more options.
The Minnesota Assembly Content: 8
The Minnesota Assembly
Established 1858
Reconstructed May 2020
Portal Typography Content: 2
Let's make November 17, 2025 a sweet Homecoming! Content: 1
Welcome to The Minnesota Assembly concept portal
By: Various Committees, Chairs and Co-Chairs
This new concept work is based on the current website at http://minnesotaassembly.net and the September 2025 Joomla! 5.4.0, Moodle 4.5.7, PHP and sizable list of related Linux, Apache, cPanel and MySQL open source software.
This is essentially a blog style CMS (content management system) but with our administratively developed infrastructure and workflow for our state government and educational administrations.
This work gets most of its references from
the current website in order to fashion a new
web portal on our own platform.
This splashing Eagles fishing page is a bit of an option now...
...no offense to Eagle watchers... but the Fishing Eagle video loading size is 60 megabytes... therefore I am keeping the Eagle to a minimum for now to ease the burden on Internet Minutes on your phone plans...
Public Notices Content: 3
public notices can be published any number of ways
Land Patent Notice Content: 18
Land Patent Notice
Click on the Post New Content button to access the document management interface and the publishing scheduler.
Here is new browser tab access to manage this dialog from the Back-Office.
Here is Jimmy's wizz-bang to manage the Back-Office with ease.
Public Events Content: 1
“The people of this state do not yield their
sovereignty to the agencies which serve them”
Events
Plan an Event for your County or Town
Crow Wing County Fair 2023
Scott Pankow, Dave Fradette, Doc Anderson
Kathy & Craig Saari
Bob Roehrich, John Maiers, Melanie Larson;
Literature / Hand Outs
Definitions (odt)
Did You Know (docx)
Lawful Gov't Single (odt)
The-American-Government (pdf)
Your Political Status Matters (odt)
The Minnesota Assembly - a state government,
which is republican in form!
You can Donate to The Minnesota Assembly by:
Making Checks payable to: Joseph Bennett
In Care of 4602 Grand Avenue, Suite 500 Box 118
Duluth, Minnesota 55807
The Minnesota Assembly - All Rights Reserved.
Copyright Unlimited - 2024
Public Law Content: 0
GUESTS ONLINE Content: 1
Some of the best things we can do as welcomed guests to this online forum are to....
- look around The Minnesota Assembly for a place to contribute your time, attention and talent
- now that we are in session, help us in the effort of reconstructing our de jure state and counties
- explore many study courses and reference the data being indexed by our Data Center
- create a login membership for yourself and become a content creator, a student and more
- have your voice heard as you get into renewed state government that is a republican form of government -- without being a member of those secular Libertarian, Democrat or Republican parties within the de facto.
Virtual Training Center Content: 0
Available Resources
Minnesota Content: 0
Minnesota Counties Content: 1
Minnesota Counties (87)
As time progresses, this functional area will be expanded to contain workflow specifics for each county.
- Aitkin
- Anoka
- Becker
- Beltrami
- Benton
- Big Stone
- Blue Earth
- Brown
- Carlton
- Carver
- Cass
- Chippewa
- Chisago
- Clay
- Clearwater
- Cook
- Cottonwood
- Crow Wing
- Dakota
- Dodge
- Douglas
- Faribault
- Fillmore
- Freeborn
- Goodhue
- Grant
- Hennepin
- Houston
- Hubbard
- Isanti
- Itasca
- Jackson
- Kanabec
- Kandiyohi
- Kittson
- Koochiching
- Lac qui Parle
- Lake
- Lake of the Woods
- Le Sueur
- Lincoln
- Lyon
- Mahnomen
- Marshall
- Martin
- McLeod
- Meeker
- Mille Lacs
- Morrison
- Mower
- Murray
- Nicollet
- Nobles
- Norman
- Olmsted
- Otter Tail
- Pennington
- Pine
- Pipestone
- Polk
- Pope
- Ramsey
- Red Lake
- Redwood
- Renville
- Rice
- Rock
- Roseau
- Saint Louis
- Scott
- Sherburne
- Sibley
- Stearns
- Steele
- Stevens
- Swift
- Todd
- Traverse
- Wabasha
- Wadena
- Waseca
- Washington
- Watonwan
- Wilkin
- Winona
- Wright
- Yellow Medicine
As of today, we are expecting that each county is to have an open seat to fill in at least 30 volunteer positions.
Aitkin County, Minnesota Content: 0
- Aitkin (typical way to get there)
Aitkin County, Minnesota
Jimmy's virtual link to Aitkin County, Minnesota via the famous WikiPedia
All county seats need to offer similar functions that people will use.
Let's study this guide together, as we co-develop the model county systems.
I propose using Aitkin County as a sort of template prior to duplicating the functions.
All job descriptions, documentation and process workflow will be established to create and support the 30+ seats needed for every county --- in the land and soil jurisdiction.
The first order of business can flow something like this...
- Creating the County Data Collection Format, which will be used for primary input by everyone one who 'actively status corrects' using The American States Assembly educational resources.
- Developing the dataset and collection forms to provide a combination of training, preparation, document creation, review, editing, revising. Then printing, downloading, etc.
- All the steps to recording and steps beyond, in any one's circumstance, can be offered inside the program workflow.
- Extensive American History Education
- Communications Workflows
- Political Status Corrections Processing
- Public, Private, Lawful and Legal Notices
- Icons for all sorts of activities
- Financial Services
- Community Services
- Clerk’s Department
- Department of Public Works
- Economic Development
- County Court System
- Health Department
- IT Department
- Engineering, Building & Construction Department
- Planning & Zoning
- Civilian Resources
- Enforcement of Public Law
- Emergency Management
- Parks & Recreation
- Police Department
- Fire Department
- Public Schools
- Militia / Sheriff
- Coroner's Office
Anoka County, Minnesota Content: 0
STATE-WIDE RESOURCES Content: 7
The State-wide Resources category can be a spot for people to organize the counties and hold regional meetings.
Several members of the several committees will be able to feed live updates into these resource listings. Please stay tuned.
As soon as we open up the subscription service, members will be able to subscribe to receive messaging as new content comes in.
Logging in presents additional information here as well.
Contact Us Content: 0
This will be the location for a contact form. Coming soon.
Q & A Content: 2
The Minnesota Assembly welcomes you to our frequently asked questions.
FunFacts Content: 1
HJR 192
The Lieber Code. HJR 192. Senate Doc 43
Here's the Coup de Gras on what is taking place right now, known as the Lieber Code.
Remember, I told you we've been under military rule for at least 75 years or more, since HJR 192 was implemented and they removed all the gold (money of substance), money was reduced to mere military scrip / Federal Reserve Notes.
Lieber Code, General Orders No. 100 by Abraham Lincoln (04/24/1863) (Section II, Article 31):
A victorious army appropriates all public money, seizes all public movable property until further direction by its government, and sequesters for its own benefit or that of its government all revenues of real property belonging to the hostile government or nation. The title to such real property remains in abeyance during military occupation, and until the conquest is made complete.
Senate Document # 43; SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 62 (Pg 9, Para 2) April 17, 1933.
"The ultimate ownership of all property is in the State; individual so-called "ownership" is only by virtue of Government, i.e., law, amounting to mere user; and use must be in accordance with law and subordinate to the necessities of the State.
Full text of "Lieber Code Gen Order 100" (archive.org)
Avalon Project - General Orders No. 100 : The Lieber Code (yale.edu)
Art. 157.
Armed or unarmed resistance by citizens of the United States against the lawful movements of their troops is levying war against the United States, and is therefore treason.
Jerome Daly Mortgage Case1969 Scott County Minnesota |
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Alan of Salibury Birth Certificate fraud |
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"If I were the Devil"Paul Harvey |
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Look at the Flag! |
Virtual Assembly Meetings Content: 4
Virtual Assembly Meetings
For as often as people want to help serve in the assembly, there will always be the need to hold meetings and discussions.
Enter the means to accomplish all of that.
Free Conference Call Links Content: 3
The American States Assembly webinar with Anna Von Reitz
When: Every Monday @ 3pm Hawaii; 5pm Alaska; 6pm Pacific;
7pm Mountain; 8pm Central; 9pm Eastern.
If you miss the Live Event, recordings/archives will be posted usually from Wednesday of the same week:
https://webinarsearch.americanstatenationals.org/
Our goal is to learn and grow and help us to restore our lawful government with Peace, Love and our Unrealized Truth.
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The WebEx application will make your experience much more effective by saving settings such as Audio devices from week to week. It is not required to use this application, but its just more convenient for regular participants. The first time you open the App it will ask your details and they will be saved for any future webinars.
If you prefer to use a browser, we recommend the Chrome browser for a better experience with WebEx. In that case we also recommend that you load in the WebEx browser extension along with the small local downloaded App as a option.
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These are direct private Broadcast Links provided and maintained courtesy of the Georgia Assembly.
These servers operate well, but occasionally do have glitches that can easily be resolved by switching to the WebEx connection above (Primary Option).
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Assembly Face 2 Face Meetings Content: 0
Assembly Face-2-Face Meetings
Basic Education Content: 3
Basic Education... "Train up the Minnesotan in the way one must go..."
As 'Basic Education' content is migrated from the existing website, we will locate that here...
Profiles Content: 0
News & Updates Content: 2
News & Updates