who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years
Note that they make a distinction between being with the limits AND under the jurisdiction of the United States.
IOW you are considered to be subject to the jurisdiction of the United States - you are not a diplomat, you are not an enemy hiding in a hut in the forest, you are not a secret emissary of the King of Spain planted here by a corvette to spy on Gen. Washington's navy.
You were admitted into your state and community by agreement.
The modern way of saying this is you have applied for and received permanent residency status.
And they were supposed to be *white*.
This nation was intended to be for European whites. Just like Zimbabwe for the blacks, and Israel for the jews, and China for the Chinese and Japan for the Japanese, etc, etc.
Was not intened to be a “melting pot”