SOCB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Individual And Group Rights, Nationstates, Intermediate Scrutiny
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Citizenship is the usually defined as a form of membership in a political and geographic community . Globalization challenges simple understandings of citizenship as state-centered and state-controlled. However, nation-states continue to hold substantial power over the formal rules and rights of citizenship . Citizenship debates states consider to yield power and differentiate the access people have to participating. A status you hold (passport, etc. ) vs. a process. Dimensions to citizenships: citizenships as a legal status, citizenship as rights, citizenships are political participation, citizenships are belonging. The obligations the state gives us the right to fair trial, freedom to express, The obligations we have to the state jury duty, paying taxes, follow laws, participate in elections. Historically the article mentions how voting was a privilege, women and other individual"s didn"t have the opportunity to even vote, the privilege was exclusionary some genders, races, cultures, ages, weren"t allowed to vote.
