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Creedal Citizenship

  • Mark Tushnet
Published/Copyright: October 24, 2011
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Issues in Legal Scholarship
From the journal Issues in Legal Scholarship Volume 9 Issue 1

This Essay sketches the idea of creedal citizenship, where citizenship results from a person’s agreement with a set of principles that define the nation of citizenship. Some nations already include elements of creedal citizenship in their self-definitions, and the common practice of requiring some degree of civic knowledge as a predicate for naturalization reflects some ideas associated with creedal citizenship. But, in its pure form, creedal citizenship would disconnect citizenship from territory entirely, yet without moving to “world citizenship” or requiring open borders. Creedal citizenship is of course not a realistic policy option anywhere today, but exploring its conceptual contours may illuminate some areas of current controversy.

Published Online: 2011-10-24

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  1. Article
  2. Denaturalizing Citizenship: An Introduction
  3. Making Membership
  4. Boundaries and Birthright: Bosniak's and Shachar's Critiques of Liberal Citizenship
  5. The Political Challenges of Bounded, Unequal Citizenships
  6. The Dark Side of Citizenship: Membership, Territory, and the (Anti-) Democratic Polity
  7. Rethinking Citizenship through Alienage and Birthright Privilege: Bosniak and Shachar's Critiques of Liberal Citizenship
  8. Creedal Citizenship
  9. Prohibited Realities and Fractured Persons: Remaking Lives in Transnational Spaces
  10. Developing Citizenship
  11. The Geometry of Inside and Outside
  12. Alien Equality
  13. Making Sense of Citizenship
  14. The Birthright Lottery: Response to Interlocutors
https://doi.org/10.2202/1539-8323.1127

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Article
  2. Denaturalizing Citizenship: An Introduction
  3. Making Membership
  4. Boundaries and Birthright: Bosniak's and Shachar's Critiques of Liberal Citizenship
  5. The Political Challenges of Bounded, Unequal Citizenships
  6. The Dark Side of Citizenship: Membership, Territory, and the (Anti-) Democratic Polity
  7. Rethinking Citizenship through Alienage and Birthright Privilege: Bosniak and Shachar's Critiques of Liberal Citizenship
  8. Creedal Citizenship
  9. Prohibited Realities and Fractured Persons: Remaking Lives in Transnational Spaces
  10. Developing Citizenship
  11. The Geometry of Inside and Outside
  12. Alien Equality
  13. Making Sense of Citizenship
  14. The Birthright Lottery: Response to Interlocutors
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