Instead of a man being a citizen of the United States because he was a citizen of one of the States, he was now made a citizen of any State in which he might choose to reside, because he was antecedently a citizen of the United States.
He explains the shift in citizenship status from state-based to national-based under the Fourteenth Amendment.
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