Julian Swan and his wife Margaret illuminate the path to liberation through Equity Jurisprudence—a system originally designed to restore the law as a shield for natural rights. Where typically laws have been a tool for rigid enforcement of statutes divorced from all fairness, Equity as taught by the Swans gives students a way to neutralize adhesion contracts and empowers them with the ‘Art of Inquiry’ to prick the conscience of those in authority. From a police officer on the side of the road, all the way up to a judge in the highest halls of power, Equity commands a higher ethical standard than strict codes, giving those in authority the broadest discretion in meting out what is most just. Over time, this broad discretion afforded by Equity has paradoxically been wielded against us, and today has been raised above all other jurisdictions in service to legal plunder. Yet at its roots, when demystified, Equity is our greatest tool to see natural justice done, and provide an unlimited check to state overreach. We need only learn its ways of soft power and good faith inquiry, and the tools to disarm coercive state plunder are within our grasp.
Most assume courts hold absolute power. Julian and Margaret dispel this illusion. Through primary source exposés, they demonstrate how the power of accounting can turn excessive financialization against the powers that be. With scripture as our ultimate guide, Julian reminds us to “Agree with thine adversary quickly,” and let what is “rendered unto Caesar” do the talking. As the central bankers’ measurements have been used against us, “so shall they be measured back unto them”.
Great scholars have condemned the perversion of law into an instrument of redistribution and dominance of the public at the tip of a sword. Julian teaches through Equity’s tools of acceptance, rescission, and good-faith inquiry that individuals have a way to peacefully discharge all claims against them by exposing the financial perversions which undergird today’s courts. The ill effects of Modern Monetary Theory run deep: the central banks have forcefully financialized every sector of society, even the sacred halls of justice. Exposing this becomes the undoing of all claims, civil or criminal, brought against innocent men and women.
A former engineer, Julian systematically unveils the blueprints of the current financial system, and breaks it down to be understood by those of all backgrounds. His transition from designing structures to deconstructing legal weaponry led him to recognize that the greatest threats to liberty arise not from chaos, but from corrupted order. Margaret’s compassion fuels her relentless defense of the marginalized. Nothing kindles her ire like injustice, and in Equity she finds rapid solutions that promote the path of peace.
