<P> Freemen - on - the - land (also freemen - of - the - land, the freemen movement or simply freemen) are a loose group of individuals who believe that they are bound by statute laws only if they consent to those laws . They believe that they can therefore declare themselves independent of the government and the rule of law, holding that the only "true" law is their own interpretation of "common law". This belief has been described as a conspiracy theory . Freemen are active in English - speaking countries: the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand . </P> <P> In the Canadian court case Meads v. Meads, Alberta Court of Queen's Bench Associate Chief Justice John D. Rooke used the phrase "Organised Pseudolegal Commercial Arguments" (OPCA) to describe the techniques and arguments used by freemen in court describing them as frivolous and vexatious . There is no recorded instance of freeman tactics being upheld in a court of law; in refuting one by one each of the arguments used by Meads, Rooke concluded that "a decade of reported cases, many of which he refers to in his ruling, have failed to prove a single concept advanced by OPCA litigants ." </P> <P> The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) classifies freemen as sovereign citizen extremists and domestic terrorists . </P>

What is it called when there are no laws