Citizenship As Foundation of Rights - Meaning for America

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Citizenship as Foundation of Rights explains what it means to have citizen rights and how national identification requirements undermine them. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Sobel, Richard (Northwestern University Sobel, Sobel Richard
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9781107128293
• ISBN: 978-1-107-12829-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Civil Law, United States of America, USA, Civil rights & citizenship, Private or civil law: general, Civics and citizenship, Citizenship and nationality law, Citizenship & nationality law, Legal system: general, Legal systems: general, Private / Civil law: general works