[editor-surveyor]

A ‘subject’ is not a citizen, nor is a citizen a subject.

Its not just “apples and oranges,” its deception and irrelevance. A subject is the property of the state, while in the US, the state is the creation of the citizens, who have the power to revoke it at any time.

[jamese777]

“Its not just “apples and oranges,” its deception and irrelevance. A subject is the property of the state, while in the US, the state is the creation of the citizens, who have the power to revoke it at any time.”

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Your argument is with the justices who have used British common law as a legal basis for their decision.
However if history serves me correctly, I do believe that British subjects began acquiring protected rights of citizenship in 1215 A.D. when King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta.