Citizenship political

With the onset of World War 11, politics began to interfere with his research. Debye was actually forbidden to enter the Max Planck Institute which he directed because he refused to accept German citizenship. Despite obstruction by the German government, he left Germany by way of Italy and came to the United States. In 1940 he was appointed professor of chemistry and head of the department of chemistry at Cornell University. Six years later, he became an American citizen. During the war years his research turned toward the structure and particle size of high polymers. 

That the savage resides at the borders of our imagined national community has textured American political life from the Indian Wars to the Gulf War debates over actual policies regarding actual savages work a kind of homogenizing magic on the homefront, just as experience itself— as soldier, nurse, or captive—casts the racial character of citizenship in stark relief. For most Americans it is not Finerty s experience but his... 

First, the modem lawn cannot be an expression of culture outside of a political and economic history in which property, citizenship, and proper consumer behavior are conjoined. Second, lawns (although not necessarily grasses) must at some level require the inputs invested in them by people, and these demands must enforce human practices and behaviors. Third, chemicals for lawns must also represent real problems, ones bom of a risk society where hazards and... 

In classical republicanism only a small proportion of the population were considered to have the independence required to be citizens. The economic independence that went with the ownership of land was often a key criterion. Ownership of a certain amount of land is now untenable as a criterion for citizenship rather, we give political rights and responsibilities to those who have the capacity to be independent in the sense of being independent practical reasoners (so children are excluded). However, it is not enough merely that citizens have the capacity to be independent practical reasoners, they have to be independent practical reasoners. This is not something for which there can be an objective test, and any attempt to carry out such a test would be contrary to the need to show respect for fellow citizens.11... 

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Lake District National Park Authority (2002) Habitats of the Lake District , Education Service Factsheet, Lake District National Park Authority, Kendal Light, A. (2003) Urban ecological citizenship , Journal of Social Philosophy, vol 34, no 1, pp44—63 Nilsson, R. (1998) Integrating Sweden into the European Union Problems concerning chemicals control , in R. Bal and W. Halffman (eds) The Politics of Chemical Risk, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, ppl59—171... 

It is, then, precisely the use of a nation s sovereign right to determine who shall compose its members that best reveals that nation s moral and political character. When, for example, the American Republic was formed, the nation withheld citizenship from its black- and red-skinned inhabitants, enfranchising the former in 1865, and the latter only in 1924. 

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