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8 Tex. A&M J. Prop. L. 1 (2021-2022)

handle is hein.journals/txamrpl8 and id is 1 raw text is: LIBERALISM, PATRIOTISM, AND COSMOPOLITANISM IN LOCAL CITIZENSHIP IN A GLOBAL AGE Eric R. Claeyst I. IN TRO D U CTIO N .................................................................................................... 1 II. THE ARGUMENT OF LOCAL CITIZENSHIP IN A GLOBAL AGE ................. 4 III. ASSESSING LOCAL CITIZENSHIP IN A GLOBAL AGE ............................... 6 IV. IMMIGRATION, CITIZENSHIP, AND COSMOPOLITANISM........................... 8 V. NATURAL RIGHTS, COSMOPOLITANISM, AND PATRIOTISM.......................11 VI. COOPTING PATRIOTISM FOR LIBERALISM AND NATURAL RIGHTS........12 VII. RECONSIDERING LOCAL CITIZENSHIP INA GLOBAL AGE......................15 I. INTRODUCTION Immigration and citizenship are both fraught areas of policy. The federal government has long exercised broad authority over immigration and the status of aliens; that authority is often tested by states.1 And immigration and citizenship both raise difficult trade-offs. Americans live in a country dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal and entitled to unalienable rights.2 That proposition seems to favor relatively welcoming immigration policies and relatively easy paths to state and national citizenship. But our founding documents also take for granted that we constitute one people,3 and on that basis general commitments to human equality and freedom may need to be reconciled with considerations that limit access to the United States and United States citizenship. In his recent book Local Citizenship in a Global Age,4 Kenneth Stahl studies a slice of immigration and citizenship policy. The book focuses on the efforts of a few cities in the United States to chart their own courses on topics associated with immigration and citizenship. The book has two main claims. First, the United States practice[s] DOI: https://doi.org/10.37419/JPL.V8.I1.1 tProfessor, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University. 1. See, e.g., Arizona v. United States, 567 U.S. 387 (2012). 2. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE para. 2 (U.S. 1776). 3. Id. 4. KENNETH A. STAHL, LOCAL CITIZENSHIP IN A GLOBAL AGE (forthcoming). 1

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