{"id":12005,"date":"2019-09-27T12:52:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T19:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12005"},"modified":"2019-09-27T12:52:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T19:52:55","slug":"the-death-of-american-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-death-of-american-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death of American Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The American Founders institutionalized the best of a long Western tradition of representative government, with the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. These contracts outlined the rare privileges and responsibilities of new American citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet the concept of citizenship is being assaulted on the premodern side by the legal blending of mere residency with citizenship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Estimates on the number of undocumented American residents range from 11 million to more than 20 million. The undocumented are becoming legally indistinguishable from citizens and enjoy exemption from federal immigration law in some 500 sanctuary jurisdictions. An illegal resident of California will pay substantially less tuition at a California public university than will a U.S. citizen of another state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Multiculturalism has reduced the idea of&nbsp;<em>e pluribus unum<\/em>&nbsp;to a regressive tribalism. Americans often seem to owe their first allegiance to those who look like they do. Citizens cannot even agree over once-hallowed and shared national holidays such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the Fourth of July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is eerie how such current American retribalization resembles the collapse of Rome, as Goths, Huns, and Vandals all squabbled among themselves over what was left of 1,200 years of Roman citizenship \u2014 eager to destroy what they could neither create nor emulate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/09\/the-death-of-american-citizenship\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The American Founders institutionalized the best of a long Western tradition of representative government, with the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. These contracts outlined the rare privileges and responsibilities of new American citizens. Yet the concept of citizenship is being assaulted on the premodern side by the legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-37D","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12139,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/american-citizenship-is-eroding\/","url_meta":{"origin":12005,"position":0},"title":"American citizenship is eroding","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 15, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Highland County Press Today, many condemn the idea of nationalism by connecting it to race hatred (e.g., white nationalism). 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