Fearful of having a national government because such centralized systems tend to become tyrannies, the delegates of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 decided to make compromises that would enable the States to retain their sovereignty when it came to internal issues, while uniting together under the federal government for issues of an external nature, ones that concerned the union as a whole, and to ensure the preservation of the union through federal mechanisms that could settle disputes between the States and enable the country's citizens to remain in communication with each other.
The people on the Atlantic Coast of the New World would be both sovereign citizens, yet members of their States.
In response to the slow journey of our system from that of a federal government to a national government a Sovereign Citizen Movement has been traipsing through our country.
While one tended to refer to themselves as a Pennsylvanian, or a Virginian, or a Georgian before that of American, and while many believed themselves to be citizens of their States, and the States were the members of the union, American Citizenship was indeed established back then, and it was embraced and considered to be a uniting concept.
Article II, Section I, after indicating that the President must be a Natural Born Citizen, recognizes that citizens of the country already existed: "Or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution."
Yes, folks considered themselves citizens of their States, but the clauses I just mentioned also indicates that even as the Constitution was being adopted the people of the land were also citizens of the new country.
The evil thing that is pounding down on us in a tyrannical manner is not the word "Citizen", or the idea that we are citizens who are allegedly subjects to a high power.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/the-truth-about-citizenship
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