POL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jus Sanguinis, Jus Soli

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 1101
• Professor: Daniel Pierre- Antoine

Document Summary

The social contract: intellectual justification for the existence of the state, states didn"t actually appear by a contract. Real, historical states: how they really were formed (war, violence) The unity of a population is always created. Permanent residents of a particular country are full members of the political community, involving various duties and rights . In democracies there"s a much bigger weight on the rights. Jus sanguinis (law of the blood: by blood, parents" citizenship, parents" ethnicity, ancestry, varies by country. Jus soli (law of the soil: birthplace, possibility of acquisition, the need to register births, varies by country. Naturalization (moving: to each country its own process, conditions: duration of residency, truthfulness on application, citizenship exam, oath of allegiance, choice of immigrants: controversial topic. Marshall, citizenship and social class: first civil rights, then political, then social, european and north american experience. A contested conception of citizenship: inequalities exist despite rights, classical liberals and conservatives reject social rights.