As "Citizen" was not defined in the English language in the manner we now understand it, and as "Subject" was the normal and usual way of referring to a servant of the Crown, it is pretty evidence the founders meant the word "Citizen" in the same manner as the only other *REPUBLIC* in the world (Switzerland) understood it.
In the English of 1776, the word "Citizen" meant "Dweller in a City." Or "City-denizen."
In Switzerland, it meant "Member of a nation", but in London, it meant "One who lives in a City."
The Founders intended it in the Republican meaning of the word, and therefore it isn't based on British common law.
And there is even a book from 1817 which explicitly says this was the founders intent.
Our Republican “representatives” should all be as clear on the subject.
Anybody who read the Bible was familiar with the word "citizen" and knew what it meant.
Even Paul stated he was a "citizen" of Rome and everybody knew, or was told, what that meant. He was subject to Roman law.