CITIZENSHIP

by Dr. Lawrence Wilson

All information in this article is for educational purposes only. It is not for the diagnosis, treatment, prescription or cure of any disease or health condition.

I. INTRODUCTION

DEFINITION

Citizenship is a very important legal concept that has become quite confused. I hope this article helps clarify what is going on.

Citizenship refers to being a citizen. A citizen is a human being who, by place of birth, nationality of one or both parents, or naturalization is granted full rights and responsibilities as a member of a nation or political community.

The word citizen is related to the word city. An older meaning of the word citizen was a person who lived in a particular city. Today, however, the word refers to a member of a nation, not a city.

Every nation has laws governing citizenship. These laws include the rights of citizens and non-citizens, who can become a citizen, and how one applies if one wishes to become a citizen.

There are also punishments for violating these laws. These include paying money, going to jail or deportation. Deportation means being put in handcuffs and removed from the nation by force.

CITIZEN VERSUS SUBJECT

To understand citizenship it is necessary to understand another concept. In the past, in Europe and elsewhere, the people were called subjects of their king or queen. The king or queen was called the sovereign.

The founding of America in 1776 birthed the new idea that the people would be sovereign citizens, not subjects. This is how the modern idea of citizenship began.

Later in this article we discuss how this very important idea has been corrupted to essentially return people to the lower status of subject.

WHAT DOES CITIZENSHIP INVOLVE?

Citizens are required to follow all the laws and regulations of the group to which they belong. The laws can be many and have to do with marriage, family, work, criminal activity, driving a car, owning property, inheritance, taxes and more.

In return, citizens have rights, particularly in the location where the group resides. These usually include a right to work, to own property, to travel within and perhaps outside the nation, to buy and sell, to vote, to hold public office, and perhaps more.

ALIENS, RESIDENTS, AND PERSONS

Important legal words that have to do with citizenship include the following:

Aliens. When someone visits a nation and is not a citizen of that nation, the person is called a visitor or alien in the law.

If the person stays in the foreign nation, the person may also legally be called a resident, which means a non-citizen living in the nation.

Persons. Another modern legal term used to describe people who are not full sovereign citizens is person. If you look up the legal meaning, it includes a corporation, partnership or trust. These are government-created entities that one can form for various purposes.

The word person is applied to them because they are given certain rights that are somewhat like that of a human being.

In America today, most laws use the word persons, and really do not apply to citizens. However, the words have been confused and our corrupt judges and courts apply the word person to the citizens of the nation.

OTHER WORDS RELATED TO CITIZENSHIP – MIGRANT AND IMMIGRANT

Every nation has rules governing how people may enter the nation and how people can become citizens of that nation. When someone enters a nation without following those rules, it is a violation of the nation's laws and the person is a criminal.

However, some don't like the citizenship laws and want to avoid the law. So instead of using the correct words – aliens and criminals, they use other words.

For example, on the television and radio news, people who are illegally entering America or other nations illegally are sometimes improperly called migrants or immigrants. This is incorrect.

The legal definition of a migrant is a person who legally enters a different nation in order to work. An immigrant is a person who legally enters a different nation and has applied for citizenship according to the laws of that nation.

WHAT IF ONE TRAVELS OUTSIDE OF ONE'S NATION OR GROUP?

The rights of a person who travels outside of his or her jurisdiction vary. For example, in some nations, a visitor can work, but in others working is not allowed. In some nations, a visitor can own property, but not in others. In most all nations, a visitor may not hold public office and may not vote.

This is one reason why the issue of illegal immigration to the United States or to other nations is of paramount importance.

LEGAL STATUS OF THE ROGUES OR SATAN

At this time, there are millions of what look like people on earth who are not from this planet and are not legally citizens of any nation. You may think this is nonsense, but it is the truth.

On this website, we call them the Rogues. Others call them the negs, crud, crap, or thugs. The Bible calls them satan.

I don't like to call them people because they don't behave as we do. They are an invading army of brainwashed genetic mutants. They look human and speak our languages. However, they follow the orders of their superiors and do not respect our laws at all.

They rape, they beat and they kill our people. All this is completely illegal. They also use fake names, have fake birth certificates, fake drivers licenses and other fake identification papers. This is also completely illegal. They have infiltrated our governments enough so that they get away with this, but it is completely illegal.

II. AMERICA AND IT MIXED UP CITIZENSHIP

THE ORIGINAL AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP

On the American continent, at first there was no citizenship because there was no nation. The people were either:

1. Native people who had lived on the land for thousands of years. The Native tribes had their laws that included something like citizenship in the tribe, but there was no citizenship in a political entity such as a nation.

2. Colonists. These were people who left their homes, mainly in Europe, and moved with their families to America. Many came because they wanted religious freedom. Some came for adventure or to make money. Most came from Great Britain, France, Russia, Holland, Spain, and from the nations of Scandinavia.

At times, the kings and queens of the European nations bought the land for these colonies from the Native people. Other times, the European rulers just grabbed some land and claimed it as their own.

Then they told their subjects (their people) that they could settle there. The people had to pay taxes to the mother nation and had to follow all the laws that the king or queen set up for them.

Technically, the legal status of the colonists was that they were members of the nation they had come from. They were required to follow all laws set up by the nations from which they came.

3. Africans. The British also forced some African people to move to the Southern part of America. These people were tied up and put on ships. Upon arrival, they were forced into slavery, mostly to work in the cotton fields.

Slavery means they were legally made the property of someone else. They could be bought and sold like you would buy or sell a car or a house. This was only the law in the Southern colonies of America. The Northern colonies hated slavery and never got involved with it.

This was the situation at the founding of America.

THE ORIGINAL AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP

In 1776, an uprising or revolution happened in America. The colonists were tired of restrictive laws and heavy taxes from Europe and wanted to form their own nation. Amazingly, they succeeded in breaking away from most European control. (An exception is that the Bank of England controlled the money in America.)

When the revolution succeeded, the founders of America had to set up the citizenship rules for the new nation. The founders of America decided upon a very radical idea of citizenship for the new nation! It was radical in several ways:

1. It was a sovereign citizenship. This means the people would have many rights – more like the situation of the kings and queens of Europe.

A Supreme Court case ably describes the situation. To paraphrase: In England, the people are subjects of the king or queen, who is also called the sovereign. In America, the people are sovereign citizens. (There is no sovereign or king.)

2. The rights and responsibilities were spelled out in a new type of document called a constitution. There was a constitution for the nation and there was a constitution for each of the 13 states, formerly known as the colonies. These are called the National Constitution and the State Constitutions. The state constitutions had to be in conformity with with national constitution.

3. Citizenship was through one’s state. There was no national citizenship. They did this so that the states would have more power. A founding principle of America was that the central or national government would be limited in its power. Government power would be spread out to the state and local level as much as possible.

I am told this system of citizenship worked very well and stayed in place for about 90 years.

THE NEW NATIONAL CITIZENSHIP

In 1861, a war broke out in America. The people in the Southern states wanted to break away from the Northern states. A big issue was the South wanted slavery and the Northern states did not want it. There were also issue in regard to taxes and tariffs.

It was a bloody war that lasted three years. The North won the war. As a result, slavery was made illegal in America.

When it was time to grant citizenship to probably less than a million black people who had been slaves and therefore were not full citizens of America, the 13^th and 14th Amendments were added to the US Constitution.

However, instead of making the black people full sovereign state citizens, a new category of citizenship was established. This was a terrible corruption of the founding principles of America and some think it was the end of the real America!

The new citizenship had and has the following features.

1. It was a national citizenship, not a state citizenship. This gives much more power to the central government.

2. A new word was used in the 13^th and 14^th Amendments to describe the citizens – person. This is horrible because the word “person' in the law means corporations, partnerships and trusts. This was a deliberate deception! “Persons” in the law are fictitious entities that have very limited rights and are basically creatures of the government.

To understand this better, here is the text of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution:

Section 1. 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. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Read Immigration In The National Interest by Senator Tom Cotton for more information about the important topic of citizenship.

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