It should also be understood that, “an individual can be a Citizen of one of the several States without being a citizen of the United States,”426 and an individual may become, “a citizen of the United States without being a Citizen of a State.”427 Although from that moment of attached citizenship in the United States, the individual would be an individual person. The States have also been bound by their agreements until they are no more than corporate entities of the United States. “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. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”428 “This section recognizes the difference between citizen of United States and Citizens of a state.”429 “Both before and after the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, it has not been necessary for a person to be a citizen of the United States in order to be a citizen of his state.”430 But, “The term resident and citizen of the United States is distinguished from a Citizen of one of the several states, in that the former is a special class of citizen created by congress.”431 It is stated over and over that there is a citizenship with civil rights that is not connected with the organization or the administration of government and there is another citizenship that is granted to a person in virtue of his citizenship with rights redressed in civil action and citizens of the United States by the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. The civil rights of a citizen of the United States is a completely regulated privilege because one type of, “’civil right’ is a right given and protected by law [through a legal system], and a person’s enjoyment therefore is regulated entirely by the law [the legal system] that creates it.”432 -COG 426 U.S. v. Anthony, 24 Fed. Cas. 829, 830. 427 Slaughter-House Cases, Supra; cf. U.S. v. Cruikshank, 92 US 542, 549(1875). 428 Constitution of the United States, Amendment 14 Sec. 1, (Ratified July 9,1868) 429 Frasher v. State, 3 Tex. Ct. App.267. 430 Citing U.S. v. Cruikshank, supra. 431 U.S. v Anthony, 24 Fed. 829 (1873). 432 Nickell v. Rosenfield, (1927) 82 CA 369, 375, 255 P. 760.
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