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[merrily]

70. Your bare declaration does not do it anymore than the other poster's.

The constitution sometimes mentions citizens, sometimes people and sometimes simply prohibits the government from doing something. The Constitution always applies to the US government. Sometimes it protects everyone, sometimes only citizens. Depends on the wording of the individual provision. The Framers were sticklers for things like that, much more so than modern courts or lawyers. If they used different words, they meant something different, especially when they switched words right within the same provision.

Section 1.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Three categories, right in one section. They're not interchangeable. Of course, the 14th was for states.

However, other provisions apply to the US govenrment.

The solution here is in Article I, not in claiming that the Constitution applies only to citizens or those located within the US. Of course, different rules apply in war and those may come into play since we are now in endless war.