There was a change in government. A new "United States" came about. A corporate/military/revenue overseer of military-revenue districts. The U.S. Supreme Court was likely aware of that. The Constitutional money is for off-base. Consider D.C. to be one large military base and its districts as merely 'matrix overlays' imposing a parallel universe on de jure and organic America. Thusly two or more classes of "citizenship" sprung up. Consider states of America as a plurality vs the United States as a singularity stemming from the military imperium of a Commander In Chief of the United States. Perhaps the U.S. Supreme Court was in on the "syntax game"?