Mayapan Society and Ancient Maya Social Organization. Ph.D. by Clifford Brown
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Moreover, to the extent that being a national citizen is required as a condition for inclusion in the realm of civic equality the claim is that, after a certain residence period, permanent residents ought to be automatically and unconditionally recognized as citizens of the state. This might well imply a restriction of the state’s power to deWne itself as a nation by freely deciding about its members. But this, I will argue, is one of the restrictions that a commitment to liberal democracy requires in the light of both increasing human and labour mobility and the prevalence of territorially organized power structures.
The claim here is that people cannot simply be expected to go indeWnitely without developing ties and attachments, without engaging in long-term commitments which may come to be essential for them, or without taking from the cultural and social context in which they live the necessary tools for interpreting their meaningfulness. Underlying the criterion of aVectedness are a concern with residence and certain assumptions about the likelihood that most of us will generate ties and attachments which are connected to a social environment delimited by a certain territorial space, and that we rely, at least to an important extent, on the cultural speciWcs in that social environment to interpret their meaningfulness.
40 Immigration as a democratic challenge with the statutory naturalization requirements loses its relevance as soon as automatic incorporation is morally and constitutionally mandated. This is not to say that legal and illegal residents are put on exactly the same footing. Legal residents may have other bases on which to strengthen or accelerate their claims to full inclusion, or to question the legitimacy of some of the naturalization requirements. They may Wnd that the required level of economic suYciency is too demanding, that the residence time before they can naturalize is too long, or that the cultural assimilation requirements are too narrowly or strictly deWned.