The Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents, and CitizensCambridge University Press, 2004 M11 25 - 251 pages The Rights of Others examines the boundaries of political community by focusing on political membership. |
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... conditions . Permanent alienage is not only incompatible with a liberal - democratic understanding of human community ; it is also a violation of fundamental human rights . The right to political membership must be accommo- 3 INTRODUCTION.
... conditions . Permanent alienage is not only incompatible with a liberal - democratic understanding of human community ; it is also a violation of fundamental human rights . The right to political membership must be accommo- 3 INTRODUCTION.
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... liberal democracies ? These are the principal questions that I address by exploring the philosophical as well as institutional aspects of political membership in liberal democracies . Discourse theory and political membership I approach ...
... liberal democracies ? These are the principal questions that I address by exploring the philosophical as well as institutional aspects of political membership in liberal democracies . Discourse theory and political membership I approach ...
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... liberal , republican , or multi- cultural offer yet another . But how can we justify the legal construction of the constitutional state ? I will follow Habermas in accepting that universal human rights and popular sovereignty , or the ...
... liberal , republican , or multi- cultural offer yet another . But how can we justify the legal construction of the constitutional state ? I will follow Habermas in accepting that universal human rights and popular sovereignty , or the ...
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... liberalism , the belief in universal moral equality , and democracy , the belief in citizens ' equality , were ... liberal democracies . Democratic iterations not only change established understandings in a polity but they also ...
... liberalism , the belief in universal moral equality , and democracy , the belief in citizens ' equality , were ... liberal democracies . Democratic iterations not only change established understandings in a polity but they also ...
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Contents
On hospitality rereading Kants cosmopolitan right | 25 |
The right to have rights Hannah Arendt on the contradictions of the nationstate | 49 |
The Law of Peoples distributive justice and migrations | 71 |
Transformations of citizenship the European Union | 129 |
Democratic iterations the local the national and the global | 171 |
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