Citizenship as Foundation of Rights - Richard Sobel

Citizenship as Foundation of Rights

Meaning for America

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
2016
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-12829-3 (ISBN)
118,45 inkl. MwSt
Citizenship as Foundation of Rights will interest concerned citizens, educators and political pundits by providing valuable insights into the nature and foundations of citizenship and rights to vote, work and travel. The book explains what it means to have citizen rights and how national identification requirements undermine them.
Citizenship as Foundation of Rights explores the nature and meaning of American citizenship and the rights flowing from citizenship in the context of current debates around politics, including immigration. The book explains the sources of citizenship rights in the Constitution and focuses on three key citizenship rights - the right to vote, the right to employment, and the right to travel in the US. It explains why those rights are fundamental and how national identification systems and ID requirements to vote, work and travel undermine the fundamental citizen rights. Richard Sobel analyzes how protecting citizens' rights preserves them for future generations of citizens and aspiring citizens here. No other book offers such a clarification of fundamental citizen rights and explains how ID schemes contradict and undermine the constitutional rights of American citizenship.

Richard Sobel is a political scientist, and author and editor of eight books and numerous scholarly, law and policy articles. He graduated from Princeton University, New Jersey and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and has taught at Princeton University, Smith College, Massachusetts, the University of Connecticut, Harvard University, Massachusetts and Northwestern University, Illinois. At Harvard, he has also been a Research Associate of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute, fellow of the Hutchins Center, Shorenstein Center, and Berkman Center, and member of the Program in Psychiatry and Law. He is Visiting Scholar at the Buffett Institute, Northwestern University, and director of Cyber Privacy Project. He has contributed to Supreme Court amicus briefs on voting rights and identification.

1. Introduction. Empowering citizenship; 2. The nature of American citizenship as the foundation of rights; 3. The right to vote; 4. The right to employment; 5. The right to travel; 6. Threats to citizenship rights in identification regime; 7. Other countries' systems constitute warnings; 8. Conclusions. Sustaining empowering citizenship.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 157 x 235 mm
Gewicht 480 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
Recht / Steuern Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-107-12829-3 / 1107128293
ISBN-13 978-1-107-12829-3 / 9781107128293
Zustand Neuware
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