That’s why I said the terms are colorable. United States National is a citizen of the United States. It could probably be said, in some definitions, that a State National is as well. But using state, as in state Citizen, in its common form attempts to make a distinction from any colorable term of art. United States is usually defined as the District of Columbia and its possessions, so Guam, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico etc. and often times they’ll start it with “the States and District of Columbia…” and when you find their definition of State, it’s the District of Columbia and its possessions; so “DC and DC…”. Even when the definition tries to say something along the lines of “in the geographical sense…” it always has an exception for how the term is being applied, and therefore the geographical sense of the term means nothing in context.
The 14th amendment says in clause 1 “This provision grants citizenship to formerly enslaved individuals and ensures that all citizens have equal protection under the law”
“A person who is a citizen of the United States is necessarily a citizen of the particular State in which he resides. But a person may be a citizen of a particular state and not a citizen of the United States. To hold otherwise would be to deny to the state the highest exercise of its sovereignty, the right to declare who are its citizens.” State V. Fowler, (41 La. Ann. 380 6 S. 602)
“There are, then, under our republican form of government, two classes of citizens. One of the United States and one of the state. One class of citizenship may exist in a person, without the other, as in the case of a resident of the District of Columbia; but both classes usually exist in the same person.” Gardina V. Board of Registrars, (160 Ala. 155 48 S. 788, 791)
“There is a distinction between citizenship of the United States and citizenship of a particular state, and a person may be the former without being the latter.” Alla V. Kornfield, (84 F. Supp. 823)
DontStoneStephen 0 points 6 months ago
That’s why I said the terms are colorable. United States National is a citizen of the United States. It could probably be said, in some definitions, that a State National is as well. But using state, as in state Citizen, in its common form attempts to make a distinction from any colorable term of art. United States is usually defined as the District of Columbia and its possessions, so Guam, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico etc. and often times they’ll start it with “the States and District of Columbia…” and when you find their definition of State, it’s the District of Columbia and its possessions; so “DC and DC…”. Even when the definition tries to say something along the lines of “in the geographical sense…” it always has an exception for how the term is being applied, and therefore the geographical sense of the term means nothing in context.
The 14th amendment says in clause 1 “This provision grants citizenship to formerly enslaved individuals and ensures that all citizens have equal protection under the law”
“A person who is a citizen of the United States is necessarily a citizen of the particular State in which he resides. But a person may be a citizen of a particular state and not a citizen of the United States. To hold otherwise would be to deny to the state the highest exercise of its sovereignty, the right to declare who are its citizens.” State V. Fowler, (41 La. Ann. 380 6 S. 602)
“There are, then, under our republican form of government, two classes of citizens. One of the United States and one of the state. One class of citizenship may exist in a person, without the other, as in the case of a resident of the District of Columbia; but both classes usually exist in the same person.”
Gardina V. Board of Registrars, (160 Ala. 155 48 S. 788, 791)
“There is a distinction between citizenship of the United States and citizenship of a particular state, and a person may be the former without being the latter.”
Alla V. Kornfield, (84 F. Supp. 823)