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The movement claim that a parallel narrower citizenship category exists alongside 14A citizenship — one that ordinary Americans could occupy while declining to be 'citizens of the United States' for IRC purposes — is foreclosed
The movement looks for a parallel narrower citizenship — one that ordinary Americans could occupy while declining 'citizen of the United States' status for tax purposes. The Fourteenth Amendment and the IRC are operative law: there is no such parallel category. The textual observation about layered statutory citizenship is real; the doctrinal conclusion built on it is foreclosed.
Citizenship and Naturalization: The Constitutional Structure
The constitutional structure of citizenship — Article I naturalization power, Fourteenth Amendment birthright citizenship, the dual federal/state structure, and the layered statutory citizenship of corporations under 28 U.S.C. § 1332(c). The vocabulary the project's findings rely on, defined once and cross-referenced from the per-finding work.