"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Are Americans Subjects Or Citizens?
"You only have privileges granted by government, which it can withdraw any time it would like, up to and including the privilege to live. This same 'privilege' view is one you've accepted in many areas of your life, including travel (TSA and Driver Licenses), ownership of property (taxing possession of property, aka real estate taxes), free speech ('Occupy', the new laws criminalizing simple speech anywhere the government might be and more) and even the right to life (when some cop decides to shoot you in cold blood, lie about it, plant a gun on you or even burn your body.)"
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"Are Americans Subjects Or Citizens?"
If, by "Americans", this author means "United States citizens", the answer to that question is, "yes".
Subject. Constitutional law. ...Men in free governments are subjects as well as citizens; as citizens they enjoy the [civil/political] rights and franchises; as subjects they are bound to obey the laws. The term is little used, in this sense, in countries enjoying a republican form of government. Swiss Nat. Ins. Co. v.Miller, 267 U.S. 42, 45 S.Ct. 213, 214, 69 L.Ed. 504 ~ Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition (c.1991), page 1425 [Bracketed information added.]
Unfortunately, United States citizens no longer enjoy a "republican form of government", a government whose sole purpose for existence is to secure, to each of its voluntary members, their un-alien-able rights, i.e. their natural rights, and nothing more.
"Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights . . . and to take none of them from us. No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him . . . and the idea is quite unfounded, that on entering into society we give up any natural right." ~ Thomas Jefferson [in a letter to Francis Gilmer (c.1816)]