Show 11 oeoraiw toung 9 t FEDERAL CITIZENSHIP But It has boon urged that the Inhabitants In-habitants of tho newlyacquired territory terri-tory must be cither citizens or subjects or aliens that thy cannot bo aliens that we have no subjects and hence they must be citizens This reasoning Is more plausible than sound In fact every citizen Js subJect ft sub-Ject to the jurisdiction of the United States and hence Is in a very real Fence a subject This being the case so far as the national Jurisdiction Is concerned con-cerned the inhabitants of the ceded territory ter-ritory are also subjects but arc they citizens Internationally speaking of course they have American nationality as being be-ing subject to tho Jurisdiction of the United States and are entitled to the protection of the Federal Government But citizenship is a matter purely of municipal Jaw Tho Supreme court In interpreting the fourteenth amendment has already held that there arc two kind of citizenship Federal and State The Slaughterhouse Cases 1C Wall 36 and that these do not necessarily I exist In the same person In like manner man-ner there may easily be Implied a third Kind of citlcns < hlp Territorial Territorial i Terri-torial citizens may or may not be citizens citi-zens of the United States Federal citizens as they may very properly be called They are Federal citizens if being l so already they have taken up domicile In a Territory or If they arc made Federal citizens by act of Congress Con-gress Otherwise they are Territorial citizens only From The Constitution and the Territories by l Harry Pratt judson In tho American Monthly Review Re-view of Reviews for April 1 |