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[merrily]

83. eye roll. I cannot give you three years of law school on a message board and for free. But here's a

start. When the Constitution was written, the colonies had adopted the written laws and jurisprudence of the era of Queen Elizabeth I as their foundation, and then modified it, colony by colony, statute by statute, case by case. So Elizabethean English common law would be the place to start. The Framers were steeped in it.

Another place to start. Articles on the rules of interpretation of legal writings, like statutes and contracts, even though they are modernized. There are many. Here's one.You;ll probably need to read more before you really get it.

http://www.lawteacher.net/lecture-notes/english-legal-system/statutory-interpretation.ph

Enjoy, read more and get back to me in three years.

You could also look at the dictionary definitions of "people" "citizens" and "people located within the state" and grok those three terms, by definition, are not interchangeable.

Either way, your argument that "citizen" and "person" in a legal document, mean identical things, regardless of the dictionary definitions of those words, simply because you say so is sheer nonsense and I'm done.