This collection of essays discusses the concepts of citizenship and civic leadership in light of contemporary challenges to American democracy. The authors invite further reflection on the features of citizenship and civic leadership under the American Constitution, and offer various suggestions about how to revitalize citizenship and civic leaders

The purpose of this volume is to discuss the concept of citizenship—in terms of its origins, its meanings, and its contemporary place and relevance in American democracy, and within a global context. The authors in this collection wrestle with the connection of citizenship to major tensions between liberty and equality, dynamism and stability, and civic disagreement and social cohesion. The essays also raise fundamental questions about the relationship between citizenship and leadership, and invite further reflection on the features of citizenship and civic leadership under the American Constitution. Finally, this collection offers various suggestions about how to revitalize citizenship and civic leadership through an education that is conducive to a renewal of American civic practices and institutions.

Introduction by Carol McNamara and Trevor Shelley

Chapter 1: Aristotle on Citizenship, the Common Good, and Human Happiness by Susan D. Collins

Chapter 2: On Liberal Citizenship by Michael Zuckert

Chapter 3: Fragmentary Wholes: Rousseau on Citizenship by Clifford Orwin

Chapter 4: “Is There No Virtue Among Us?” James Madison and the Office of the American Citizen by Greg Weiner

Chapter 5: Virtue and Self-Government: Reflections on the Compatibility of 21^st American Character and the Demands of Self-Government by Henry Olsen

Chapter 6: A Political Science of Mores: Tocqueville on Citizenship and Civic Leadership by Trevor Shelley

Chapter 7: The Origins of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clauses by Kurt Lash

Chapter 8: American Citizenship and the Constitution: The Fourteenth Amendment as Hinge and Bridge by Rogers M. Smith

Chapter 9: “So terrible among men”: Montesquieu and Hamilton on the Judicial Power and National Citizenship by Ann Ward

Chapter 10: Nationalism and Citizenship by Rich Lowry

Chapter 11: Globalization’s Nationalist Future: Migration, Citizenship and the Pandemic by Henry Thomson

Chapter 12: Nationalism Won’t Enhance National Unity by Shikha Dalmia

Chapter 13: Can Dual Citizenship be Equal Citizenship? by Christopher Caldwell

Chapter 14: Legalize Undocumented Immigrants: It Will Cut Them Free of the Ball and Chain that Stalls their Integration by Tomas Jimenez

Chapter 15: Relations Before Transactions: Racial Inequality and Citizenship in America by Glenn Cartman Loury

Chapter 16: Debating Citizenship: The Reverend J.H. Jackson and the Contours of Everyday Black Conservatism by Angela D. Dillard,

Chapter 17: Race and the American Experiment: Jefferson, Madison, and the Problem of Integration by Peter C. Myers

Chapter 18: Microaggressions and the Public Good by Elizabeth Corey

Chapter 19: Educating Citizen Van Winkle by Susan McWilliams Barndt

Chapter 20: The Constitution in the Civic Education of Americans by William M. McClay

Chapter 21: Putting the US Constitution in its Place: A Broader Agenda for Civic Education by Peter Levine