Barbara Findlay, one of the lawyers involved in the case against Amy Hamm insists on her name being written without capitals.

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[–]CreditKnifeMan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I would have agreed with you 6 months ago. But what I've said is true.

  • The term for a free American is a "US national"
  • Not a "citizen"
  • Not a "non-citizen national"

Each of the three bulleted examples above is a distinctly separate political status.

However, technically each "US citizen" has a dual political status.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-legal-considerations/us-citizenship/Certificates-Non-Citizen-Nationality.html.

As defined by the INA, all U.S. citizens are U.S. nationals but only a relatively small number of persons acquire U.S. nationality without becoming U.S. citizens.

See the second paragraph on the US State Dept website for that quote..

A "citizen" who is also a "national" can volunteer out of the "citizen" status, and retains the "national" status.

A "US national" is the equivalent to the constitutional "state citizen" with Constitutionally Protected rights.

They relabeled this coveted, and protected status.

Today's "citizens" are 14th amendment federal citizens.
The Jim Crowe laws applied to these "citizens"; hence the income taxes, and gun laws, etc.