Is a U.S. Citizen a citizen or a citizen subject?

The U.S. Citizenship status was created after the Civil War when the 13th amendment wasn’t enough to ensure the proper treatment of ex-slaves. While “slavery” was abolished by the 13th amendment, southern states would still pass local laws prohibiting Negros from participating in their states, or receiving proper benefits from their states.

Even then, before the 14th amendment, negro slaves did not qualify to become “American Citizens” short of a modification to the Constitution .

The 14th amendment, then, was passed and the “U.S. Citizen” status was born. This status transferred primary citizenship from the individual states to the Congress and the Federal Government for those who bore this status, which allowed the Federal Government the power it needed to protect the Negros from states with discriminatory laws. These protections however were limited at first, as “Jim Crow” laws were passed in the individual states that restricted and tightly controlled the “Alien U.S. Citizens/Negro Citizens” relative to the state ctitizens.

We then had two types political statuses in the nation: The U.S. Citizens who were granted civil rights and protections under the 14th amendment and “State Citizens” under the original Constitution and other founding documents of our nation which pre-existed the 14th amendment, who were the “People” of each state with full political rights. With the legal precedent given by Brown v. Board of Education the “separate but equal” doctrine was eradicated and the “rights” of a U.S. Citizen was equalized with that of a “State Citizen”, which disallowed the states to treat their citizens differently than U.S. Citizens.

To this day the U.S. code clearly declares that “All persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall enjoy the same rights as white citizens”. This perspective on history is further confirmed by the case U.S. vs Wong Kim Ark. The Slaughterhouse Cases also make it quite clear that U.S. Citizenship is Federal Citizenship.

So, is a U.S. Citizen a citizen or a citizen subject?

Well, the United States code specifies quite clearly that a U.S. Citizen owes permanent allegiance to the United States, which means they are a Citizen Subject who is subject to Congress and the Federal Government for protection against their state. This is a classic formula for Allegiance.