The founding fathers did not conceive of a country where everyone was a form of an American? You were a Virginian, Massachusettian, a Marylander loosely connected to your brother states.
Furthermore, they explicitly wrote that they were founding these United States for themselves and their posterity, with "posterity" being an old-timey way of saying "future descendants". And then our first congress passed a bill that President Washington signed into law, limiting citizenship to free White people of good character. Everyone saying the US is a propositional nation needs to read a book, a nation is blood.
Not only that, but they systematically went through every level of government and removed people who were not here before the Revolution. That's why Gallatin ended up being Secretary of the Treasury and not in Congress.
Furthermore, they explicitly wrote that they were founding these United States for themselves and their posterity, with "posterity" being an old-timey way of saying "future descendants". And then our first congress passed a bill that President Washington signed into law, limiting citizenship to free White people of good character. Everyone saying the US is a propositional nation needs to read a book, a nation is blood.
Not only that, but they systematically went through every level of government and removed people who were not here before the Revolution. That's why Gallatin ended up being Secretary of the Treasury and not in Congress.