I am Michael Dobson. I am a Protestant Christian, a student of law, and a long-time student of British constitutional history.
The Lord’s Freeman is where I bring those strands together in public. I write in the first person because this is not a neutral academic exercise for me. It is my attempt to work honestly through the relationship between Christian faith, lawful freedom, and the constitutional inheritance of these islands.
The name comes from 1 Corinthians 7:22: “For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord’s freeman.” That verse captures the paradox at the centre of the project. True freedom is not rebellion against all authority. It is service under the right authority.
My interest in law began with a simple question: by what authority? By what authority does any government claim the right to govern? By what authority does any court claim jurisdiction? By what authority is law imposed upon a free man? Those questions led me into Magna Carta, common law, the Coronation Oath, the Bill of Rights, and the older Christian assumptions beneath the English constitutional tradition.
I do not claim to have all the answers. I am still studying. But I am convinced that faith, theology, and law cannot be separated without losing the meaning of all three.
The Lord’s Freeman is therefore part journal, part research archive, and part campaign project. I want to write clearly, preserve useful sources, challenge weak assumptions, and build a publication that is not dependent on the goodwill of corporate platforms.
I am also building SAIA, a sovereign AI operating system, and I support The Lords Freemen Constitutional Commission.
No fixed abode. Always studying.