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We are similarly barred from considering incorporation through the Privileges or Immunities Clause. The Clause provides that “[n]o State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.” U.S. Const. amend. XIV, § 1. Under the Slaughter-House Cases, 83 U.S. (16 Wall.) 36 (1873), this language protects only those rights that derive from United States citizenship, but not those general civil rights independent of the Republic’s existence, see id. at 74-75.5 The former include only rights the Federal Constitution grants or the national government enables, but not those preexisting rights the Bill of Rights merely protects from federal invasion. Id. at 76-80. The Second Amendment protects a right that predates the Constitution; therefore, the Constitution did not grant it. See, e.g., Heller, 128 S. Ct. at 2797 [“[I]t has always been widely understood that the Second Amendment, like the First and Fourth Amendments, codified a pre-existing right.”] It necessarily follows that the Privileges or Immunities Clause did not protect the right to keep and bear arms because it was not a right of citizens of the United States. See Cruikshank, 92 U.S. at 553; cf. Presser, 116 U.S. at 266-67.

The 14th Amendment US/federal subject citizenship (US national/US person) was created by Congress in 1868 and its not the same civil status of a state Citizen (state National) or a lawful Denizen (which wasn't even a status in US law until after the 14th Amendment was ratified)

"The term resident & citizen of the United States is distinguished from a Citizen of one of the several states, in that the former is a special class of citizen created by congress...an individual can be a Citizen of one of the several states without being a citizen of the United States " - US v Anthony 24 Fed. 829

And an individual may become, “a citizen of the United States without being a Citizen of a State” – Slaughter-House Cases; US v. Cruikshank, 92 US 542, 549

“Both before and after the 14th Amendment to the federal constitution, it has not been necessary for a person to be a citizen of the United States in order to be a citizen of his state” – US v. Cruikshank

“A citizen of the United States is a citizen of the federal government..” – Kitchens v. Steele 112 F.Supp. 383

“Merely being native born within the territorial boundaries of the United States of America does not make such an inhabitant a citizen of the United States subject to the jurisdiction of the 14th Amendment.” – Elk v. Wilkins Neb, 5s.ct. 41, 112 US 99, 28 L. Ed. 643

“A person born in the United States has rights under this amendment [the 14th] to remain a citizen unless he voluntarily relinquishes the citizenship.” – Baker v. Rusk 236 F. Supp. 1244; Reynolds v. Haskin, C.A.A. Kan. 1925, 8 F. 2d 473

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