Can you be just a State citizen?

The courts say you can!

Why do we all have to claim US Citizenship if that’s a second-class status; it does NOT have unalienable rights, only civil rights. The courts seem to think that it’s possible to be just a state citizen. The Supreme Court of Indiana said,

"... although he was not a citizen of the United States [DC], he was a citizen and voter of the State, under section 2 of article 2 of our State Constitution. One may be a citizen of a State and yet not a citizen of the United States."
- McDonel v The State, 90 Ind. 320 (1883)

The Maryland Court of Appeals,

"Both before and after the 14th Amendment to the Federal Constitution, it has NOT been necessary for a person to be a citizen of the United States [DC] in order to be a Citizen of his state.”
- Crosse v Board of Supervisors, 221 A.2d. 431 (1966)

Seems perfectly clear… you don’t have to be a US citizen in order to be a citizen of the state where your live, where you make your ‘domicile’.

Quick detour… another interesting take on legal definitions

What’s the difference of being domiciled vs being resident in a state? ‘Domicile’ implies your permanent home; ‘resident’ does not. Black’s Law Dictionary, 6th Ed.,

“Residence implies something more than mere physical presence and something less than domicile.” “… but domicile means living in that locality with intent to make it a fixed and permanent home” “…resident has many meanings in law, largely determined by statutory context in which it is used.”

Why do many legal docs we sign have some wording about being a ‘resident of Nevada’, or whatever state you’re in? Why don’t they use the word, ‘domicile’, since most of the time we sign such a document we are doing it in the state we consider our permanent home. Perhaps it’s because as a U.S. citizen, your “domicile” is implied to be the District of Columbia (aka United States), but you’re “residing” in one of the 50 states? Did you know that the 50 states of the union are foreign jurisdictions to that of the District of Columbia? Geez, not another <rabbit hole>!

RE: the last quote in the previous blocked section above… So, when I see the word ‘resident’ in any legal document or statute, I need to make sure I understand its legal meaning. Can you see how insanely complex this gets — to fully understand some law or legal document you have to parse every single friggin’ word! I’m too busy trying to pay the mortgage and feed the family… and pay taxes! Who the heck has time to do the research necessary? Oh, yeah, lawyers do… but you have to pay $500/hr to tap that knowledge, which makes it nearly impossible for the vast majority of us. You know, there’s an early draft of the US Constitution that had a requirement that all those running for political office could NOT be an attorney… of course, that requirement was removed! One has to wonder how simple and unambiguous our laws would be if lawyers could not be members of Congress.

Back to the point of just being a State citizen…

Why couldn’t the freed slaves just be state citizens and be done with it? The reason is because of the Dred Scott case [Scott v Sanford, 19 Howard 393] that ruled non-whites had no citizenship status, and thus no legal ‘standing’ in any state or federal court. Congress could not rally up enough votes to confer the same status on the former slaves. It was going to take generations for the racism to literally ‘die off’. It took decades of trying and eventually Congress succeeded in creating a new citizenship status, a ‘citizen of the United States’, aka, citizen of the District of Columbia, via the 14th Amendment.

Today, we all know that racism is wrong, so why couldn’t we repeal the 14th Amendment and create a new Amendment that states, “All natural persons born in one of the several states of the union are citizens of that state regardless of race.” Overnight, the federal government would go from having 350 million citizens to having none! Half of the federal government’s US Code wouldn’t have jurisdiction over state citizens who are not US citizens. Ponder that one for a while…

The federal government is deathly afraid of people learning this. I’ve seen numerous television series or movies that involved “sovereign citizens or state citizens”, and every time they are portrayed as radical nutcases or white supremacists. They are always portrayed in a very negative light… WHY? I think it’s obvious…