Noncitizen Voting and American Democracy by Renshon Stanley A.;

Author:Renshon, Stanley A.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781442200043
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Unlimited Model

NOTES

1. Gerald L. Neuman, “Justifying U.S. Naturalization Policies,” Virginia Journal of International Law 35 (1994): 242. Or consider what Neuman points out elsewhere: “Although popular sovereignty is largely a theory of the ultimate source of political power, rather than a recipe for the structuring of individual government institutions, a nationalist interpretation of popular sovereignty could justify the conclusion that the people should never share their political power with nonnationals. Both the nationalist-communitarian and liberal-individualist perspectives have been represented in the United States, outside the alien suffrage debate as well as inside it.” See Gerald L. Neuman, “‘We Are the People’: Alien Suffrage in German and American Perspective,” Michigan Journal of International Law 13, 2 (1992), 310, fn323.

2. Jamin Raskin and Matthew Spalding, “Debate Club: Should Non-Citizens Be Permitted to Vote?” Legal Affairs (on line), May 5, 2005, 3–5, 8, www.legalaffairs.org/webexclusive/dc_printerfriendly.msp?id=42 (accessed January 2, 2009).

3. Gabriela Evia, “Consent by All the Governed: Reenfranchising Non-citizens as Partners in America’s Democracy,” Southern California Law Review 77, 1 (November 2003): 178.

4. Daniel Munro, “City Citizenship and Democratic Multiculturalism,” Paper prepared for the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, June 1–4, 2006, 1, 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16. www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2006/Munro.pdf (emphasis mine).

5. Here Munro draws from the work of Fung and Wright who argue that “[i]ndividuals’ capacities to deliberate and make public decisions atrophy when left unused.” See Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright, Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance The Real Utopias Project IV (New York: Verso, 2003), 28.

It should be noted that Fung and Wright’s assertion is a theoretical not an empirically derived one. As is often the case, one theorist (Munro) cites other like-minded theorists (Fung and Wright) to substantiate a claim.

6. Here Munro and Harper-Ho overlap. Her view is that allowing noncitizen permanent residents to vote is one way of educating future citizens in civic responsibilities and preparing them for citizenship. See Virginia Harper-Ho, “Noncitizen Voting Rights: The History, The Law and Current Prospects for Change,” Law and Inequality 18 (Summer 2000): 298.

7. On this point see also Harper-Ho, “Noncitizen Voting Rights,” 295.

8. Munro, “City Citizenship,” 22 (emphasis mine).

9. Ronald Hayduk, “Immigration, Race, and Community Revitalization,” Paper prepared for the Aspen Institute, Project on Structural Racism and Community Revitalization,” 34. www.aspeninstitute.org/atf/cf/%7BDEB6F227-659B-4EC8-8F84-8DF23CA704F5%7D/Hayduk.pdf (accessed January 1, 2009).

10. Hayduk, “Immigration, Race, and Community Revitalization,” 299.

11. Elise Brozovich, “Prospects for Democratic Change: Non-Citizen Suffrage in America,” Hamline Journal of Public Law & Policy 23 (Spring 2002): 443.

12. Brozovich, “Prospects for Democratic Change,” 452.

13. April Chung, “Non-citizen Voting Rights and Alternatives: A Path Towards Greater Asian Pacific American and Latino Political Participation,” UCLA Asian Pacific American Law Review 4 (1996): 164.

14. Evia, “Consent by All the Governed,” 180.

15. Munro, “City Citizenship,” 3, 9.

16. Jamin B. Raskin, “Legal Aliens, Local Citizens: The Historical, Constitutional and Theoretical Meanings of Alien Suffrage,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 141 (April 1993): 1392.

17. Rainer Bauböck, “Stakeholder Citizenship: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?” Transatlantic Council on Migration, April 2008. www.migrationpolicy.org/transatlantic/docs/Bauböck-FINAL.pdf (accessed May 1, 2009).

18. Raskin, “Legal Aliens,” 1453.

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