State citizenship

State Citizenship is Citizenship under one of the freely associated compact states with unalienable rights recognized, secured, and protected against state action by state constitutions, said states under a republican form of government under the laws of the United States of America, protected from federal intrusion and encroachment by the .
The privileges and immunities of state Citizens are recognized, secured, and protected by , of the . The Fourteenth Amendment (1868) conferred upon a numerous class of persons a distinct second class of federal citizenship under the Congressional jurisdiction of a federal corporation called the United States located in the District of Columbia.
::"A citizen of the United States is a citizen of the federal government ..." -- Kitchens v. Steele, 112 F.Supp 383
::"The government of the United States is a foreign corporation with respect to a state." -- In re Merriam, 36 N. E. 505, 141 N. Y. 479, affirmed 16 S. Ct. 1073, 163 U. S. 625, 41 L.Ed. 287.
The Fourteenth Amendment states: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
Definition
In matters of international law, a state Citizen of one of the several freely associated compact states is considered a citizen of the United States. Passports issued by the U.S. State Department refer to the "citizen/national," since the document is used by both state Citizens ("national") under Article IV, Section 2.1, of the Constitution for the United States of America (1787), and by federal citizens ("citizen") within the jurisdiction of Congress under the Fourteenth Amendment. State laws (more frequently of states admitted to the union before 1866 than after) also make this distinction.
A legal distinction is made in the U.S. code between a freely associated compact state The freely associated compact states are countries, per 28 U.S.C. § 297(a) and (b). "State" (uppercase "S") means any of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, or any territory or possession of the United States.
The U.S. Supreme Court in Snowden v. Hughes, 321 U.S. 1, 7 (1943), also affirmed: "The protection extended to citizens of the United States by the privileges and immunities clause includes those rights and privileges which, under the laws and Constitution of the United States, are incident to citizenship of the United States, but does not include rights pertaining to state Citizenship and derived solely from the relationship of the citizen and his state established by state law. The right to become a candidate for state office, like the right to vote for the election of state officers, is a right or privilege of state Citizenship, not of national citizenship, which alone is protected by the privileges and immunities clause."
In United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1875), the Court affirmed the following: "There is in our political system a government of each of the several States, and a Government of the United States. Each is distinct from the others, and has citizens of its own who owe it allegiance, and whose rights, within its jurisdiction, it must protect. The same person may be at the same time a citizen of the United States and a citizen of a State, but his rights of citizenship under one of those governments will be different from those he has under the other."
In addition, in the Slaughter-House Cases, the court recognized two types of citizenship. The rights citizens have by being citizens of the United States are covered under the privileges or immunities clause of the 14th Amendment, while the rights citizens have by being citizens of a state fall under the Privileges and Immunities Clause of Article IV, Section 2.1, of the Constitution for the United States of America (1787).
Washington, Franklin, Jefferson -- state Citizens
George Washington was a state Citizen of Virginia with unalienable rights recognized, secured, and protected by the Virginia state Constitution (1776) against state action, and against federal intrusion by the Constitution for the United States of America (1787), said state Citizenship recognized, secured, and protected by Article IV, Section 2.1, of that constitution. It was impossible for Washington to be a U.S. citizen under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, said amendment not existing in Washington's time (1732 - 1799). The Fourteenth Amendment was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments following the American Civil War. Benjamin Franklin was a state Citizen of Pennsylvania with unalienable rights secured by the Pennsylvania state Constitution (1776), said state Citizenship secured by Article IV, Section 2.1, of the Constitution for the United States of America (1787), the Fourteenth Amendment not existing in Franklin's time (1706 - 1790). Thomas Jefferson was a state Citizen of Virginia with unalienable rights secured by the Virginia state Constitution (1776), said state Citizenship secured by Article IV, Section 2.1, of the Constitution for the United States of America (1787), the Fourteenth Amendment not existing in Jefferson's time (1743 - 1826).
James Jackson Kilpatrick's book, [http://sovereignstates.org/books/The_Sovereign_States/SovereignStates.html "The Sovereign States: Notes of a Citizen of Virginia",] is a treatise on the rivalry and distinctions between the two governments, general and state, with an emphasis on the American Civil War, and the book also discusses the [http://sovereignstates.org/books/The_Sovereign_States/SovStates_IV.html#IVsect2 circumstances attendant upon ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment], as does The "Conspiracy Theory" of the Fourteenth Amendment by Howard Jay Graham. Also, see The Railroads in the "Conspiracy Theory" of the Fourteenth Amendment by James F. S. Russell for a discussion on the meaning of the word under the amendment. In 1968, the Utah Supreme Court in , discussed issues and contentions surrounding the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment. The court declared:
::"In regard to the Fourteenth Amendment, which the present Supreme Court of the United States has by decision chosen as the basis for invading the rights and prerogatives of the sovereign states, it is appropriate to look at the means and methods by which that amendment was foisted upon the Nation in times of emotional stress. We have no desire at this time to have the Fourteenth Amendment declared unconstitutional. In fact, we are not asked to do that. We merely want to show what type of a horse that Court has to ride in order to justify its usurpation of the prerogatives of the states."
42 U.S.C. § 1982 : US Code - Section 1982, currently makes a lawful distinction between federal citizens of the United States and white citizens (non-Fourteenth Amendment citizens outside the jurisdiction of Congress; SEE: Washington, Franklin, Jefferson above): "All citizens of the United States shall have the same right, in every State and Territory, as is enjoyed by white citizens thereof to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property."
After the Civil War, former non-white slaves acquired federal U.S. citizenship subject to Congressional jurisdiction under the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) in contrast to white Citizens at that time already having state Citizenship with unalienable rights secured by their state Constitution,
:::The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands exist within the United States, outside the laws of the United States of America.
::42 U.S.C. § 1746(2): "If executed within the United States, its territories, possessions, or commonwealths: 'I declare (or certify, verify, or state) under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.'"
::The United States, as opposed to the United States of America, is defined as a federal corporation:
:::28 U.S.C. § 3002(15)(A): "'United States' means -- (A) a Federal Corporation;"
The first ten amendments to the Constitution for the United States of America (1787), known as the Bill of Rights, were inserted to protect Citizens in their states, those Citizens "without the United States," defined as a federal corporation at 28 U.S.C. § 3002(15)(A)
Jones v. Temmer was a case filed in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, dated August 11, 1993, claiming violation of rights protected by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, in challenge to a 50-year-old taxi monopoly in Denver, where the District Court judge upheld the monopoly. The lawsuit drew the interest of the Colorado legislature. It was dismissed on appeal as moot because "the Colorado legislature passed a new law amending a portion of the statutory scheme upon which plaintiffs' constitutional challenge was based." The district court opinion was vacated and the case was remanded with instructions to dismiss.
Reviving state Citizenship
Legislators in Pennsylvania, Arizona, South Carolina, Georgia, and Oklahoma in a news story in USA Today, dated January 6, 2011, stated they want to fight all the way to the Supreme Court to revive state Citizenship.
Constitutional lawyer Kris Kobach, Secretary of State of Kansas, in a news story in The New York Times, dated January 5, 2011, said proposed laws were written to “revive the concept of state citizenship.”

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