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Rawle believed in a living constitution, he also was a British loyalist. Blackstone, not the founders, was his hero. Furthermore, if as you say, and that of Rawle, ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ had a broad meaning that encompassed all areas of jurisdiction that had to be incorporated into defining citizenship, then why weren't the Indians immediately given citizenship? Why were they still excluded? They were here before us and they were all born within the jurisdiction/confines of the nation. Many of them fought along side the founders in the Revolution. They were subject to the laws just the same as every alien, regardless the length of their stay, except the Indians were permanent inhabitants. So if anything, they should have gotten preference over the foreigners who traveled here from outside our borders. NO?

The Indians were recognized as a separate nation within the borders of the US, just as they are now. We had treaties with them - broke them often enough, but we still recognized them as independent nations.