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Rights and Citizenship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2020

J. Roland Pennock
J. Roland Pennock*
Affiliation:
Swarthmore College
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This discussion of rights and citizenship is part of a series falling under the general topic “Ethical Issues and Citizenship Education.” Although it contains little directly dealing with how to go about the education of citizens, it does embody material that would be desirable for citizens to know and to understand. Citizenship as well as rights will be discussed in the pages that follow, but the bulk of this particular contribution to the series will deal with rights. (Specifically sections 3-7 deal solely with rights.) The relation between the two is greater than might otherwise appear to the casual reader, for it is as citizens that we claim our most important rights, our rights against the state. Our legal rights have derived from our citizenship. As citizens we enjoy the right to have our rights enforced — as a matter of right, not just as a privilege that could be legitmately taken away from us at the whim of some arbitrary ruler.

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Research Article
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News for Teachers of Political Science , Volume 31 , Fall 1981 , pp. 12 - 23
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1981

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Footnotes

This essay was written in conjuction with the project on “Ethical Issues: Citizenship and Political Education”. supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to the American Political Science Association. This essay reflects the lessons and discussions of the faculty seminar directed by Professor Pennock.

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This essay has profited greatly from the comments of the following persons who have read an earlier version of it: Charles R. Beitz, Richard B. Brandt, John W. Chapman, Bette Novit Evans, Jonathon F. Galloway, Emily R. Gill, Martin Golding, Sheilah Mann (Director of the Project for which this was prepared), Charles A. Miller, Peter Riesenberg, and David G. Smith. To each of them I am greatly indebted.

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