Rights vs. Privileges
A right is defined by Black’s Law Dictionary as “a power, privilege, (sic) faculty, or demand, inherent in one person and incident upon another … the powers of free action.” Please note that rights are “inherent” in a person. This means that it is physically impossible for rights to be extracted from a person by […]
Rights, Duties, and Citizenship
For every duty, there is a corresponding right, and every right a corresponding duty. A right cannot exist without a duty, and a duty canonot exist without a right. This principle is made clear in the opposite sense in U.S. v. Cruikshank, where the Federal Government cannot secure its citizens rights or privileges which are […]
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 14th amendment says “person” instead of “people”. A member of the people can become a person, but a person under the arrangement under the 14th amendment can’t be a […]
The Slaughterhouse Cases
U.S. Citizens are Federal citizens. The only citizenship mentioned in that amendment is to “the” jurisdiction thereof, as in the Federal Government citizens of the United States. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/83/36/Primary Holding: The Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is limited to federal citizenship rather than extending to state citizenship. Not only may a man be […]
Article IV, Section 2, Clause 1
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artIV-S2-C1-1/ALDE_00013777/ The first section of Article IV, Section 2 provides that the citizens of each state shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of the citizens of other states. The provision is often called the Privileges and Immunities Clause or the Comity Clause. This Clause, which is textually tied to state citizenship, should not […]