Should citizenship be a birthright?

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A just government relies on a social contract freely entered into by free citizens. Thus, the scope and authority of that social contract extends only to those citizens that have agreed to be bound by the provisions of the contract. This is the essence of citizenship.  So, as the argument goes, a social contract where anyone can join in defiance of the community of existing members is no social contract at all. Birthright citizenship is inherently self-contradictory.

The Land of the Free?

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In short,  Transnational Organized Crime is slowly and silently taking over  the US. This seems to me to be a greater menace to democratic institutions than the police. It would thus follow that we concentrate in devising ways to curtail their profits as wisely counseled many moons ago by Professor Milton Friedman.  But I am afraid I sustain a very unpopular and minority vision of our problems.

¿La ciudadanía debe ser un derecho por nacimiento?

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Un gobierno justo se basa en un contrato social libremente aceptado por ciudadanos libres. Consecuentemente, el alcance y autoridad de tal contrato social cubre solamente a esos ciudadanos que han aceptado subordinarse a las estipulaciones del contrato. Esta es la esencia de la ciudadanía. Entonces, se razona, un contrato social donde cualquiera puede agregarse desafiando a la comunidad de miembros existentes no es un contrato social válido. La ciudadanía por nacimiento es inherentemente auto-contradictoria.