Sharon v. Hill 26 F 337, 343 (1885): "PRIOR TO THE ADOPTION OF THIS AMENDMENT, strictly speaking, there were no citizens of the United States, but only some one of them. Congress had the power "to establish an uniform rule of naturalization," but not the power to make a naturalized alien a citizen of any state. But the states generally provided that such persons might, on sufficient residence therein, become citizens thereof, and then the courts held, ab convenienti, rather than otherwise, that they become ipso facto citizens of the United States."
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