We're not going to vote our way out and we're not going to legally redefine our way out either lol. AI Slop: This treatise argues that the collapse of American constitutional understanding stems from the legal evolution of the word “person.” It traces how early U.S. law distinguished “We the People” (State-level sovereign citizens—originally defined as free white persons) from “persons” (slaves, immigrants, and non-parties to the Constitution). It explains how the 14th Amendment created a new federal citizenship class intended only for freed slaves, not State citizens, and how later courts—especially Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific—expanded “person” to include corporations and other legal fictions. By the 20th century the administrative state applied “person” universally, erasing the original State-citizen framework and placing nearly everyone under federal jurisdiction. The author argues that this shift replaced a constitutional republic with a federal corporate structure built on the 14th Amendment category, redefining the public as “persons” rather than “people.”