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I do not see "the" insurection. They are not talking about any "one" rebelion or insurection.
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There is too much coincidence that 'An Act Concerning The Rights of American citizens in Foreign States' was passed into law the evening before the 14th amendment passed. In this act the right of expatriation was officially recognized.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage...db&recNum=2018
The foreign states referred to are the states comprising the union. The federal government never really had citizens although all of the states recognized the concept of United States citizens. So now here comes the federal government declaring freed slaves and everyone within the United States to be United States citizens. The United States consists only of the the District of Columbia and the territories and possessions. These are the states that consist of the United States, not the states that are foreign to the United States (Ohio, Virginia and so on). By error you may presume that you are within the United States when you are actually within a foreign country, not a possession or territory of the United States.
If you know you have the right to turn down the provisions of the 14th amendment and to expatriate to your own country and you do not, you are in insurrection to your own government and to the U.S. constitution. This is the de facto system set up by the 14th amendment, in which state governments share the same body politic with the federal government.