“a citizen of the united states”
Adoption curve: how many independent members of each party used this exact phrase, by day. Where at least three distinct offices can be grounded, peak-day source receipts appear below.
Democrats Republicans
- First recorded in our corpus
- 2025-01-07 by member name unavailable
- Peak
- 5 members in one day · 2026-06-30
- Distinctiveness
- The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
- Data points
- 12 active days
Peak-day evidence
On 2026-06-30, this exact phrase is grounded in 5 distinct source units (an office or joint-release family). The Peak figure above is the largest count for either party; this evidence total counts grounded units across both parties on that same day. Showing 3 of 5 source receipts. (D: 5)
Public Stage-1 phrase statistics begin 2025-01-03. Coverage for the same window is shown on the Methodology page. (The full-history “Alexandria” backfill to 2001 is staged for a later phase.)