Since involuntary servitude is abolished by the 13th amendment, and
prior to that, the Declaration of Independence, wherein it states
governments are instituted among men to SECURE RIGHTS (i.e., life and
liberty) it is clear that citizenship cannot be imposed by birth on a
free people.
A free people may consent, and assert citizenship,
thus voluntarily step down in status, accept the civic duties, in
exchange for political liberties.
By this, we can reason that
American people were born with the birthright of sovereignty, freedom
and independence, the blessings of the republican form of government,
and the natural and personal liberty associated with that status.
Thus, the American national, free inhabitant, domiciled within the
boundaries of the united States of America, was and is an American
sovereign, master of his domain, and subject of no one.
Legal
arguments aside, it was once common knowledge that Americans were
sovereigns. And it explains why Americans did not bow nor kneel to
foreign monarchs, being their social equals. And it also explains why
“common” Americans could marry foreign nobility and not violate their
local laws barring marriages to “commoners.”
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ALIEN, n. An American sovereign in his probationary state.
- - - - “The Devil’s Dictionary” (1906), by Ambrose Bierce
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His audience knew what an “American sovereign” was, to understand the joke. But today’s audience would be clueless.
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