The Constitution denotes To make us all federal citizens WITHOUT the prior existence of State citizenship makes us 'subjects' of the federal government. When is the last time you heard the feds acknowledge State citizenship?
Here's what Joseph Story says about that:
Thus the laws of a single state were preposterously rendered paramount to the laws of all the others, even within their own jurisdiction. And it has been remarked with equal truth and justice, that it was owing to mere casualty, that the exercise of this power under the confederation did not involve the Union in the most serious embarrassments. There is great wisdom, therefore, in confiding to the national government the power to establish a uniform rule of naturalization throughout the United States. It is of the deepest interest to the whole Union to know, who are entitled to enjoy the rights of citizens in each state, since they thereby, in effect, become entitled to the rights of citizens in all the states. If aliens might be admitted indiscriminately to enjoy all the rights of citizens at the will of a single state, the Union might itself be endangered by an influx of foreigners, hostile to its institutions, ignorant of its powers, and incapable of a due estimate of its privileges.
§ 1099. It follows, from the very nature of the power, that to be useful, it must be exclusive; for a concurrent power in the states would bring back all the evils and embarrassments, which the uniform rule of the constitution was designed to remedy.
The states created the federal government, and once the federal government was created the relationship between the federal government, the states, and the people changed. We are citizens of the United States and residents of the state in which we reside.
No, you have a right to work. Texas is still a 'right to work' State.
So is California. Having the right to work does not change the fact that working for pay is still a choice, one may exercise that right or not.
That's right. The federal government was given the enumerated power to make a uniform rule of naturalization....NOT the authority to arbitrarily bestow citizenship.
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The states created the federal government, and once the federal government was created the relationship between the federal government, the states, and the people changed.
THAT is what attempts to turn the Constitution upside down.
The act of creation is what determines the legal hierarchy. That has been acknowledged since Blackstone - that which you create, you have a right to control
It's what gives us the legal right to our property - we created it. It's what gives us the legal right to our children - we created them. The same law of creation is what gives the States the right to control the federal government.
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We are citizens of the United States and residents of the state in which we reside.
ONLY if you are subject to its jurisdiction. Do you know what 'subject to the jurisdiction thereof' really means?
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Having the right to work does not change the fact that working for pay is still a choice, one may exercise that right or not.
I'm sorry, but that's ludicrous. The idea you DON'T have a right to work is like saying you don't have a right to live. One is so dependent on the other there is no way to separate the two.
From the first legal treatise written after Radification and used as evidence in the recent District of Columbia v. Heller RKBA case;
By equality, in a democracy, is to be understood, equality of civil rights, and not of condition. Equality of rights necessarily produces inequality of possessions; because, by the laws of nature and of equality, every man has a right to use his faculties, in an honest way, and the fruits of his labour, thus acquired, are his own.
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