Rights and Citizenship (Week 10)

Question 1

What is citizenship according to hall and held?

What is citizenship to constitutional democracy?

Answer 1

discussion and struggle over the meaning and scope of membership of the community in which one lives
who belongs and what does this mean
Its a bridge between law and identity

Question 2

Why is citizenship the architecture for legitimate social inequality?

Answer 2

Bridge gap between ideal equality as foundations of democratic society and de facto inequality of capitalist society

Question 3

What did the Beveridge report seek to improve?

Answer 3

Eliminate want, disease, ignorance, squalor, idleness

Improve education, health care, unemployment insurance

Question 4

What are Marshall’s three kinds of rights?

What is the big tension in Marshall’s way of thinking?

Answer 4

Civil rights, political rights, social rights

Social rights in a system of contract, the scarce resources issue

Question 5

What is the universal model? Where did the basis come from?

How is social stratification implicated?

Answer 5

Equality does not require equal outcomes but enables participation in substance of civilized life
Some basic form of uni citizen emerged from equality of condition
Will remain on the basis of merit

Question 6

What are Marshall’s main critiques?

Answer 6

Neolib - citizens in a consumer role with the state for services, encourages passive citizenship

Political left - cultural differences can be clear source of inequality, Canada needs to recognize colonial history, Marshall privileges a certain type of citizen

Question 7

What are the political left’s proposed solutions to universal citizenship?

Answer 7

1. Democratization and decentralization of decision making power
2. Differentiated citizenship

Question 8

How does cultural pluralism affect universal citizenship models?

Answer 8

Universal models cannot accommodate complexity of cultural interactions
Minority groups are only recognized through differentiated citizenship
Individuals should be incorporated into political community not just as individuals but as groups

Question 9

What are the three types of rights included in differentiated citizenship?

Answer 9

1. special representation
2. multicultural rights
3. self-government rights

Question 10

Can we abandon citizenship as part of the discourse?

Answer 10

Abandoning limits the role of the state in the creation of common civic spaces
Rise of interracial and interethnic conflicts
Can’t rely on the market as a source of unity

Question 11

What is bill 21?

Answer 11

Quebec ban of religious symbols for public authority figures

Question 12

What was the Bouchard Taylor Commission
(2007)?
What were the two routes explained by the commission? which did they recommend?

Answer 12

Goal was harmonization
Legal route and citizen route
Citizen route - good for people to manage conflicts, avoids court congestion, values mirror interculturalism (exchange, negotiation, reciprocity)

Question 13

What are the three guidelines to accommodation layed out by the commission?

Answer 13

1. Undue hardship: disproportionate costs & safety concerns
2. Ethical reference points - should guide negotiation, openness to the other, reciprocity, mutual respect ect
3. Society’s values and aims service as incentives - accommodation may be rejected if they run counter to broad social aims

Question 14

What is the multani case?

Answer 14

Dude wants to wear religious knife 2 school
School is like no buddy, but if you sew it into your pants, sure
School board is like no

Go to court - Fails the minimal impairment part of the oakes test

Question 15

Who said the following: “At least the paddles are together, and the man in the middle seems to have some vision of what’s to come.”
What is the Haida Gwaii?

Answer 15

James Tully from strange municipality

Bill Reid statue of people on a boat headed somewhere