Local Citizenship in a Global Age

Stahl, Kenneth A.

doi:10.1017/9781316661352

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“…Treaty provisions can give Native American tribes special rights to natural resources, business opportunities, social benefits, and self-governing powers, but like the District and the territories, they are more subject to congressional governance than the 50 states (Aleinikoff 2002). All these variances greatly affect persons’ lived citizenships, including many that seem inconsistent with civic equality (Stahl 2020). Recently, litigation efforts have intensified to persuade courts to overturn what territorial advocates denounce as the “second-class status” of citizens of “so-called unincorporated territories like Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands,” as well as American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands ( Fitisemanu v. US.…”

Section: The Components Of a Civic Ordermentioning

confidence: 99%

Legal Civic Orders and Equitable Lived Citizenships

Smith

2021

Am Polit Sci Rev

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Most modern Western political theories embrace equal citizenship as a normative ideal. Many scholars, however, focus on “legal citizenship” and conceive of equal citizenship as uniformity of legal rights and duties. Others focus on experiences of “lived citizenship” and conceive of equal citizenship as achieving sufficient economic, political, and social standing for persons to be seen as civic equals. Using the United States as its example, this article offers a unifying framework for mapping the relationship of legal citizenship to lived citizenship. It illustrates the value of this framework by using it show why realistic efforts to achieve equal citizenship must aim for not uniform legal rights and duties but instead equity in the possession of economic resources, political representation, and social recognition among different categories of citizens.

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Section: The Components Of a Civic Ordermentioning

confidence: 99%