Quote Originally Posted by Chex View Post

Who gave them authority over your property is 1 unanswered question? I like persons names with faces.
2nd who gave anyone authority over you? Pessimism.

Irs tries their self-made remedy for that, that corporation does not make law.

Jurisdiction over citizenship via birth within the several States was simply an exercise of a States "numerous and indefinite" powers.

Early acts of Naturalization recognized the individual State Legislatures as the only authority who could make anyone a citizen of a State.

Framer James Wilson said, "a citizen of the United States is he, who is a citizen of at least some one state in the Union."

These citizens of each State were united together through Article IV, Sec. II of the U.S. Constitution, and thus, no act of Congress was required to make citizens of the individual States citizens of the United States.


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This has changed due to:

a) the Civil War
b) 14th Amendment

Prior to the Civil War what you stated above was the case.

A night and day difference between Scott v. Sandford (1856) and the Slaugher-House cases (1873).