Corporate Personhood

Presumably you mean inconsistent with the Constitution prior to the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment explicitly defines who is a citizen; our current Constitution does not require citizenship in any state as a prerequisite for US citizenship.As Dr. A points out, DC residents are U.S. Citizens who clearly are not a citizen or resident of any state.

I think Dred Scott made it abundantly clear that such was not the case. But we don't live with the Constitution as it existed prior to 1865 and I don't pine for those good old days. I've heard pundits raving about how democratic this country was in the 1830s, but in my opinion those pundits are idiots.We've done the experiment, and the original definition of citizenship was an abysmal failure. The original constitution had a lot of baggage in it, much of which was cleaned up with the 14th Amendment. And yet some fools want to remove it, or tinker with it in ways that could disenfranchise large groups of citizens. Yeah, and...

I don't see how the 14th Amendment contributed to the explicit racial Constitutional baggage that existed prior to ratification. Amendments 13-15 explicitly repealed most of it. While it is true that doing so did not result in full equality and the end of racism, I don't see anything in the Constitution that still mandated that stuff.