Documents
Practical tools for asserting rights, built for ordinary people
The documents developed by the House of Markus Fellowship (HoMF) on this page are written notice templates. They are short, direct documents intended to help members communicate clearly with government agencies and private organizations when rights, property, identity, and data practices are implicated. These templates are built for practical use in everyday situations such as ownership notification for our personal biometric data, responses to agency demands, requests for lawful authority, and written objections to improper collection, retention, or sharing of personal information. Our documents are always being updated, and new ones are added over time for new fact patterns and emerging risks.
HoMF notices are designed to be used as “front-page” communications e.g. concise letters that state the issue, request the legal basis being relied upon, and set expectations in writing. Where appropriate, a notice may be sent together with the HoMF Core Rights Affidavit / Notice. When used together, the notice provides the specific, situation-based request or objection, while the Core Documents supply the broader standing record of the member’s rights-based position and conscience-based boundaries.
The purpose of sending notices with the Core Documents is record integrity. A notice package can create a dated, organized file showing what was said, what was requested, what authority was asked for, and how the recipient responded (or failed to respond). Over time, that paper trail can help members keep their matters factual, consistent, and documented especially in systems where disputes often turn on what was communicated, what was known, and whether lawful process was followed.
These templates are drafted to help members communicate in plain language and to prompt recipients to identify the precise statutory, regulatory, or contractual basis for what they are doing particularly where a demand is asserted against a person’s unalienable rights and private property, private data, or biometric identifiers. The notices are also written to reduce ambiguity, to prevent “you never told us” disputes, and to clarify boundaries when an organization attempts to expand a request beyond what the member understands to be justified.
Our documents are developed for seven common law jurisdictions - the United States of America, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Northern Ireland (which is a separate jurisdiction). Each notice is particular to that law structure, so our documents can be used by anyone operating in these jurisdictions according to their specific rules and regulations. You can use the filter in the sidebar to show only documents relevant to your jurisdiction.
Each of our document types has its own video as well as written instructions on its page. Some of them have additional downloads (like a cover letter) in the Related Media section near the bottom of the page. In addition to that we have an entire course dedicated to our core documents as well as one for our mailing procedure and have a lesson explaining how to use our document generating system. Each individual template also has a page in our community forum for additional Q&A and we're available to answer questions by submitting a request for support.
All notices on this page are provided as educational and organizational templates. They are not presented as a “remedy” or as a substitute for independent judgement, professional advice, or case-specific analysis. Members remain responsible for ensuring that any notice they use is accurate to their circumstances, consistent with the record, and appropriately addressed to the correct recipient.
If you're looking for a document that's not listed here, and it is generic enough to be templated, we will do that for our members! If your request is super-specific there's still a chance we can do something but it might happen one-on-one.
Members - please create a topic in the community forum to request a document.
Non-members with questions can submit a support request.