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The Concerns of a Citizen is a book written by the Governor of Michigan, George W. Romney, and published during his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in January 1968 .
The oldest and simplest justification for government is as protector: protecting citizens from violence. Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan describes a world of unrelenting insecurity without a government to provide the safety of law and order, protecting citizens from each other and from foreign foes.
- Contents
- The Issue: What Is British Citizenship and Why Does It Matter?
- Breaking The Link Between Settlement and Citizenship
- What Is The Relation Between Citizenship, Belonging and Britishness?
- What Is The Aim of Citizenship Policy?
- What Is The Relationship Between Citizenship, Immigration and Equality?
- Implications For Debates
- References
In its strictest sense, citizenship is a legal status that means a person has a right to live in a state and that state cannot refuse them entry or deport them. This legal status may be conferred at birth, or, in some states, obtained through ‘naturalisation’. In wealthy liberal democratic states citizenship also brings with it rights to vote, righ...
Citizenship policy is related to, but not identical with, policy on settlement (see the briefing on ‘Settlement in the UK‘). The legal concept of settlement came into existence through the 1971 Immigration Act. People with certain types of immigration status can acquire the right to remain indefinitely in the UK i.e. become ‘settled’. This means th...
Sawyer (2010) argues that historically ‘Britishness’ is ambiguous but inclusive. This is not to say that aliens were treated as if they were British, but that there was in practice considerable ambiguity about who belongs. “It has not been necessary to formally be part of the fabric of society for practical day-to-day purposes, since that depended ...
Is citizenship an end point, a reward for being ‘integrated’, in effect a personal benefit that enables an individual to claim a variety of rights? Or is it part of a process, a social good that facilitates cohesion? Is citizenship an end in itself, or is it a means to a cohesive society? The obvious answer is that it is both an individual reward a...
The UK has long been identified as a country of ‘civic’ rather than ‘ethnic’ nationalism, where membership of the nation is defined as political rather than ethnic. The reasons for this have been traced back to the development of the state, and also the British Empire which ruled territories and people as British subjects (Shulman 2002). However, n...
The relation between citizenship and ideals of cohesion, integration and equality, remains unclear. More particularly the aims of citizenship policy are not well defined, in stark contrast to immigration policy. Nevertheless there have been considerable changes to the processes of acquiring formal citizenship, including the introduction of a number...
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THE CONCERNS OF A CITIZEN. by George Romney ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 10, 1967. Assuming that no one will read this collection of speeches and articles except to assess the candidate, how do the concerns of a citizen translate into the programs of a President?
- Kirkus Reviews
4. Jan. 2019 · The first set of rationales, in the political philosophy (Dragos et al. 2008, pp. 20–21), connects the need for citizen participation to legitimacy, accountability, and openness. Legitimacy correlates in practice to the idea of enhancing trust and political confidence.
13. März 2024 · Across the 24 countries surveyed, respondents sound general calls for individual rights – such as “equality for all” and “freedom of speech should be nonconditional” – as well as focus on specific grievances and inequities related to gender, race, caste and more.
