The trustee(s) of an Express Trust may seek protection under the Constitutions as state citizens throughout the “Union” of states, a jurisdiction outside the scope of the 14th Amendment which we will discuss in a later section.
However, it should also be noted of all citizenship, 14th Amendment or otherwise, that jurisdiction over natural and artificial persons is distinguished without a fundamental difference.
This stems, surprisingly, from the operation of in rem jurisdiction which underlies all Civil Law [and Criminal].
Though all courts are familiar with the action in personam (against persons), it is the action in rem (against things) which, though practiced only in Maritime Law, stealthily operates in every civil and criminal court. This principle is one of the last understood in its entirety.
In rem jurisdiction over a man or woman can only exist if the man or woman is a slave, i.e., property or res (an object), in which case his or her disposition at law is no different than if he or she were a horse or other goods.
In nature, in rem jurisdiction is exercised over men and women by their Creator, exclusively.
Governments can therefore gain only a fictional in rem jurisdiction over men by creating various legal devices (personas) for those men to assume limited control of (e.g., citizen, taxpayer, driver, etc.). Since the device is a legal fiction, a falsehood made true by the force of law, this persona is in-fact a legal object or res.
Just as in theatre, the persona (“person”) is separate from the man or woman playing the part; therefore, there may be artificial persons, but not artificial men; natural persons, but not natural men.
– Carlton Albert Weiss
Weiss’s Concise Trustee Handbook v2