National Groups Entitlement to Self-Determination

In the first part of this section, I argue that the failure to accommodate national groups self-determination claims violates minority individuals autonomy and the 

Equal citizenship presupposes that all persons ought to have the same fundamental status as equal participants in the most important political decisions made in their societies— what Buchanan calls a right to democracy. However, what constitutes their political societies Government power raises moral issues of legitimacy and requires us to explain under what conditions the members of a group of people would treat the government as their own political authority—as the authority they consider morally justified to rule them. 

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Let us consider how this analysis applies to a group like the Roma who claim to be a non-territorial national group. To determine whether the Roma are a nation entitled to self-determination or an ethnic group that deserves only polyethnic rights... 

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