I agree with these States rights gentlemen who say that the representatives of those States were jealous of that right and that they did retain from the Federal Government the sovereign power to create the type of citizenship that each Colony desired within its own borders. I agree that that was the case. The Constitution nowhere defines the meaning of "citizen." either by way of inclusion or exclusion. except insofar as this is done by the affirmative declarations that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States. and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. are citizens of the United States." In this respect. as in other respects. it must be interpreted in the light of the common law. the principles and history of which were famillly known to the framers of the ConstitutionUnited States v. Wong Kim Ark (169 U. S. 654).
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