What Is American Citizenship?

What Is American Citizenship?
Three books help us remember some American values. In Green/Shutterstock
Dennis Hale
Marc Landy
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These days, the idea of citizenship immediat­­ely calls to mind the idea of rights: we have rights because we are citizens of a rights-protecting nation. Behind this idea is the Declaration of Independence, which proclaims that all men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain “unalienable” rights.
Dennis Hale is a professor of political science at Boston College and the author of "The Jury in America: Triumph and Decline."
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