An explanation of the "Strawman" Concept AKA why Sovereign Citizens say they don't appear as people, but as individuals

The "Strawman" concept (not to be confused with the Strawman Fallacy) is the false idea that the government treats an individual as two people for reasons that I will go into later. It fits into the Sovereign Citizen rhetoric because it is an argument used to allege that the constitution states:

1. The only laws that are allowed to be enforced without prior agreement between a government official and an individual are those that prevent people from infringing on each others’ property or constitutional rights.
2. When a name is written on a birth certificate:
   1. The government does it to create an, “imaginary friend” with the same name who has the legal authority to make a contract on that individual’s behalf. This, “imaginary friend” is what the sovereign citizens call a, “strawman” and is in the government’s control.
   2. The government, by acknowledging the validity and significance of the birth certificate creates a contract between the strawman and itself:
      1. Binds the person from whose birth certificate the strawman was “formed” to a contract to follow the laws that do not infringe on the constitutional rights of others as mentioned above in section 1.

So in short, the sovereign citizens are saying that name on their birth certificate is not of them, but of a fictional character made up by the US government to unlawfully obligate them to follow rules which they (the sovereign citizens) find to be unconstitutional.  None of these claims are true and should not be acknowledged as legitimate legal defenses.