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recognize the leadership of their chief notwithstanding as against the action of our people they are under the protection of the laws and may be said to owe a qualified allegiance to the government. When living within territory over which the laws either state or territorial are extended they are protected by and at the same time held amenable to their laws in their intercourse with the body politic and with the individuals composing it; but they are also as a quasiforeign people; regarded as being under the direction and tutelage of the general government and subjected to peculiar regulation as dependent communities. They are subject to the Jurisdiction of the United States only in a much qualified sense, and it would obviously be inconsistent with the semi-independent character of such a tribe, and with the obedience they are expected to render to their tribal head that they should be invested with the complete rights, or on the other hand subjected to the full responsibilities of American citizens. It would not for one moment be [[?]] that such was the effect of such an amendment.

2. Story on Constitution Section 1933 -
This question was discussed in the United States Senate whether the Fourteenth amendment by its terms included Indians as citizens. Senator Carpenter from the Judiciary Committee which was instructed to inquire into 
[[in margin]] 340 [[/in margin]]