Rights and Duties

For protection U.S. Citizens are directly subject to The Federal Government in the form of allegiance. This arrangement makes them a “Person”, which is why the 14^th amendment says “person” instead of “people”. A member of the people can become a person, but a person under the arrangement under the 14^th amendment can’t be a member of the people (a national) pertaining to the Federal Government. Allegiance is a two way relationship: The one in power vows protection, the one subject vows allegiance. Allegiance is voluntary servitude. Broken down:

The Federal Government:

• Bears the burden of protecting its citizens from invasions upon privileges that are granted to them from their states.

BUT

• Enjoy total and complete subjugation of these people, and can be profited upon in the form of fidelity and obligation, which includes a large degree of control through the form of regulations and profiting of their labor directly through taxation, circumventing the uniform taxation requirement.

U.S. Citizens:

• Bear the burden of total subjugation to the Federal Government, and all that entails.

BUT

• In any matters where their privileges, which are granted to them by the Federal Government, U.S. Citizens can seek protection against their state, should their state choose to invade them.

Citizen Definition: Black’s Law Dictionary, 4^th Edition Page 310

But a state and the federal government each has citizens of its own, [...] The government of the United States can neither grant nor secure to its citizens rights or privileges which are not expressly or by implication placed under its jurisdiction. All that cannot be so granted or secured are left to the exclusive protection of the states. U. S. v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542, 23 L.Ed. 588.

Person Definition: Black’s Law Dictionary, 4^th Edition Page 1300

Persons are the subject of rights and duties; and, as a subject of a right, the person is the object of the correlative duty, and conversely. [...] But not every human being is necessarily a person, for a person is capable of rights and duties, and there may well be human beings having no legal rights, as was the case with slaves in English law.

A person is such, not because he is human, but because rights and duties are ascribed to him. The person is the legal subject or substance of which the rights and duties are attributes. An individual human being considered as having such attributes is what lawyers call a natural person. Pollock, First Book of Jurispr. 110. Gray, Nature and Sources of Law, ch. IL

The 14^th Amendment

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.