Constitutional democracies, coercion, and obligations to include

The Limits of Constitutional Democracy

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 280-296

  Smith, Rogers M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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References (28)

1. Walter F. Murphy, Constitutional Democracy: Creating and Maintaining a Just Political Order (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), 7, 16.
2. Rogers M. Smith, "The Principle of Constituted Identities and the Obligation to Include," Ethics and Global Politics 1 (2008): 139-53.
3. David Miller, On Nationality (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995) 73-80, 90-98.
4. Matthew J. Gibney, The Ethics and Politics of Asylum: Liberal Democracy and the Response to Refugees (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 69-76.
5. Stephen Macedo, "The Moral Dilemma of U.S. Immigration Policy: Open Borders versus Social Justice?" in Debating Immigration, ed. Carol M. Swain (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 76-81.
6. A constitutional democracy that makes rapid access to citizenship readily available to such groups may reasonably confine the franchise to those who choose to take up their opportunities for full formal membership.
7. But as I discuss, its legislatures, pertinent executive agencies, and courts should see themselves as obliged to hear the sorts of claims to inclusion I am defending here in appropriate ways and to craft policies responsive to the needs of such claimants when their positions are well founded.
8. Robert E. Goodin, "Enfranchising All Affected Interests, and Its Alternatives," Philosophy and Public Affairs 35 (2007): 40, 49-51.
9. Robert A. Dahl has suggested resolving "the problem of inclusion" in part by the apparently similar criterion that "the demos should include all adults subject to the binding collective decisions of the association.".
10. Robert A. Dahl, After the Revolution? Authority in a Good Society, rev. ed. [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970, 1990], 51.
11. Democracy and Its Critics [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989], 120, 146-47).
12. Robert A. Dahl, On Democracy [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998], 86.
13. See, e.g., the examples discussed by Goodin, "Enfranchising All Affected Interests," 49-50, 52-53, 57, 62-63, 66-67.
14. Michael Walzer, Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality (New York: Basic Books, 1983), 62.
15. Rogers M. Smith, Stories of Peoplehood: The Politics and Morals of Political Membership (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 64-65, 101-2.
16. Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 82-83.
17. See John H. Bracey Jr., August Meier, Elliott Rudwick, eds., Black Nationalism in America (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970).
18. Dean E. Robinson, Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
19. My view has similarities to Rainer Baub?k's arguments for incorporating all those who are substantial "stakeholders" in a particular community.
20. Rainer Bauböck, "Political Boundaries in a Multilevel Democracy," in Identities, Affiliations, and Allegiances, ed. Seyla Benhabib, Ian Shapiro, and Danilo Petranovic (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 85-109.
21. Goodin, "Enfranchising All Affected Interests," 40, 68.
22. Arash Abizadeh, "Democratic Theory and Border Coercion: No Right to Unilaterally Control Your Own Borders," Political Theory 36 [2008]: 37-65.
23. Cf. Mark A. Graber, Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
24. See, e.g., Palo v. Weedin, 8 F. 2d 607 (1925).
25. Summerfield v. U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1994 U.S. App. LEXIS 26379 (1994).
26. Valmonte v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 136 F. 3d 914 (1998).
27. David Held, Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995).
28. Paul Lewis, "U.S. Will Speed Entry of Refugees from Iraq," Washington Post, September 22, 2007, A10.