Originally, the Declaration of Independence is what gave us our status, and back then, our birth was “recorded” by being published in the newspaper (not registered), or in the family Bible.
Your status would then be called an “American State National,” not a U.S. Citizen or US Citizen.
Each American nation state was being governed by the people. This is historic fact.
The people were themselves the government, and were free of any “authority” over them.
No separate government was involved…only the American people made decisions for themselves.
This had never been done before. They proved that it was a better system than being a servant or a slave.
Here is a court case that is proof that we were trafficked into the wrong status:
“The U.S. citizens [citizens of the District of Columbia] residing in one of the states of the union are classified as property and franchises of the federal government as an “individual entity”. Wheeling Steel Corporation v. Fox, 298 U.S. 193, 80 L. Ed. 1143, 56 S.Ct. 773.”