Word: citizenship
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...which is constitutional is not necessarily desirable. The National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, which met in 1973, concluded that taking away the citizenship rights of offenders, including their right to vote, would inhibit the criminal justice system's efforts to reform them. "If correction is to reintegrate an offender into free society, the offender must retain all attributes of citizenship. It stated, "Mandatory denials of that participation serve no legitimate public interest...
...Testament call for an-eye-for-an-eye retribution; a system in which the murderer suffers the same penalty as the shoplifter cannot be just. If used at all, disenfranchisement should at least be restricted to time spent in prison, so that ex-offenders would be restored to full citizenship once their debt to society is paid...
...consider the conspicuous lack of accommodation of Palestinian refugees (64 percent of the total Palestinian population) or Palestinians living in Israel in both the Oslo Accords and the Wye Memorandum. Many Palestinians living in other places in the Arab world are still living as refugees in camps, deprived of citizenship and its benefits, often disproportionately impoverished. In Lebanon, where Palestinians have not been incorporated into the state because their large numbers are seen as a threat to the delicate balance of religious groups, Palestinians from the Ein El-Hilweh refugee camp, which holds 350,000 Palestinians, have protested...
Last December, Pollard expressed remorse for his spying, shortly after winning Israeli citizenship. In May, Israel finally acknowledged its culpability in the affair. "You are not alone," Netanyahu told Pollard that month in a hand-written note. "The State of Israel will go on working, tirelessly and dauntlessly, to bring you home." And if Pollard finally heads home, it will be with the official Israeli passport--emblazoned with his own name this time--that he received...
...human urge to self-determination which bound Mandela so strongly to his Harvard audience. It is the imperative of self-determination which gives us no choice now but to become global citizens. But as citizens of this vulnerable planet, we must also cultivate an effective form of citizenship and loyalty toward those real and significant places which sustain and shape our being...