Political Status References
National Citizenship This is a national, and is the original political status that has constitutional protections against the Federal Government and the protections of their state. U.S. Citizen status takes primacy when bore. U.S. National is used by the Federal Government to cover up your National status by applying it to American Samoan/Swain Islanders as […]
McDonel vs. State
One may be a citizen of a state, yet NOT be a citizen of the United States, the political status created by Congress. What this implies is that one may be a citizen of a state, not under thejurisdiction of the United States, and therefore an “alien” under the definition of a non-resident alien in […]
Colgate v. Harvey
This case spells out this very nature of the “U.S. Citizen” political status that when bore is paramount and dominant to state citizenship status. This is further backed by the definition of citizen, where its mentioned that citizens of the Federal Government were not considered state citizens in federal courts. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/296/404/Thus, the dual character of […]
Dred Scott v. Sandford
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1850-1900/60us393In 1856, Dred Scott v. Sandford: The Missouri court ruled in this landmark case that negros are not, and cannot be, American Citizens. “The majority held that “a negro, whose ancestors were imported into [the U.S.], and sold as slaves,” whether enslaved or free, could not be an American citizen and therefore did not have […]
Citizenship/Citizen
A citizen can be of two types: Either they owe allegiance to a government or they are a member of a state. These distinctions are made in the Merriam Webster dictionary as well as in Black’s Law Dictionary. Within our own system of law, you can be a citizen of the Federal Government, or a […]