Citizenship, is this the reason they has to pass the 14th Amendment?

[shikamaru]

My opinion:

They had to pass the 14th to get over the ruling of Scott v. Sanford (1857).

There are levels to status:

1) citizen
2) denizen
3) alien whether resident or foreign
4) slave

Condition refers to whether free or servile.

Ultimately, this is about the opinions of some officers in some body corporate.

Under the law of nature, all men are free. It is man's law that seeks to involuntarily subjugate another and then rationalize it as law (positive law), religion, philosophy, or whatever.