SovCits
I went down a quick rabbit hole of watching state troopers and sherriffs stop cars with no licence plates, and get hitw ith a bunch of printouts and some magic words.
Then the nutjob in the car gets arrested for having no licence, no insurance and usually, a bunch of other legal crap they have outstanding: All while stating they weren't driving they were Travelling in their Private property. Which is a truck or some car that looks like a hoarder lives in it.
And I wondered (Oh how I wondered!) — Is this purely modern or did this happen earlier?
Oh yus. Yes it did! As far back as the 16th century, people were wandering around selling Latin Spells and sekrit knowledge of Feudal Law and odd reads on Magna Carta that they could use to not pay back money, or evade taxes.
People would trade for this, and thus armed, walk into the court, such as it was, and unroll their magic Incantation, or claim of Feudal loophole.
This worked exactly as well as you'd imagine.
Apparently some serial evaders who would claim to be priests or such would end up really in the tutti for trying that on: It's a plot point in one of the Baroque Cycle books that people believed if one could read a passage from the Bible, it'd prove you were literate and therefore Clergy, and would be excused from being in prison.
