Friday, April 30, 2010

Are Your Individual Rights Contingent Upon Citizenship?

The controversy over Arizona’s passing of their version of an “illegal” immigration law is raising hackles, receiving praise, and generally bringing forth all types of commentary.  If you desire to read some commentary which may cause you thoughtful discomfort, go and read The Rights of Man, the Privileges of Citizen, which was written by Jim May and posted at his blog The New Clarion.  A short burst of thoughtful discomfort.

The invocation of national sovereignty as justification for arbitrary immigration controls operates on the unstated premise that individual rights (to life, liberty, property etc.) are contingent upon citizenship (a state-granted status), instead of being inalienable to the person.

Posted by John Venlet on 04/30 at 02:27 PM
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