US foundational law goes a step further than that.
In US law, a 'defendant' has the right to face his accuser in court. This means that he can require to face his actual accuse, not somebody representing his accuser. BUT HE HAS TO ASSERT HIS RIGHT.
When you face your accuser - the man or woman named on the indictment - you can require the harm or damage that you did be shown by your accuser, and the proof and witnesses that show it actually was you that did the harm and damage. If the accuser is a corporate entity, or other paper entity, it can not get on the stand and say anything. --- Note that the government is a paper entity. Virtually all the cases of THE STATE OF XXXXX or THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA vs.
anybody could have been thrown out if the defendant had firmly asserted his right to face his accuser.
None of the persons on the indictment are people. They all are paperwork... unless somebody says that he is the person named. He might be lying, but if nobody contradicts him, his statement of what he is will be accepted.
Take a look at the 4th amendment to the US Constitution. It says, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons..." What are their persons? To understand what a person is, and that you can have more than one person, see
Office of the Person - https://redress4dummies.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/office-of-person1.pdf.Wake up, you sheeple. You are being duped by government and others.
And don't screw yourself like Trump screwed himself. He was represented, and he agreed to it. Stand unrepresented so that the judge doesn't have the right or ability to gag you. He will be acting unConstitutionally if he doesn't allow you, an unrepresented man/woman to question your accuser on the stand.