Oh yeah, my brother can whip your brother. You lawyer types exist solely for the purpose of confusing plain English. Always injecting doubt into commonly understood language makes money for you and tyrants for the rest of us.
“You lawyer types exist solely for the purpose of confusing plain English.”
The US Constitution was written by lawyers, who most certainly DID know what they meant:
“The term “citizen,” as understood in our law, is precisely analogous to the term “subject” in the common law, and the change of phrase has entirely resulted from the change of government. The sovereignty has been transferred from one man to the collective body of the people, and he who before as a “subject of the king” is now “a citizen of the State.”
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/169/649