While I have not carefully examined that question. as it came up in this sudden manner. without sufficient time to examine it. I will give at once what seems to me the true reason why they are not citizens merely by virtue of this provision of the Constitution. The provision is: All pergons born or naturalized in the United States. and subject to thojuriodictin thero are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. My reason for holding that Indians keeping up tribal relations. recognized as tribes by treaties with them on the part of the United States. are not citizens is that the United States has not asserted any jurisdiction there. or. if it has. it is but a qualified one. It has conceded to those Indian tribes with whom it has made treaties a jurisdiction peculiar to themselves. a jurisdiction in fact to govern themselves within certain limits by their own customs and laws.
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