Lincoln and Citizenship
Lincoln and Citizenship Exploring Lincoln's Evolving Views of CitizenshipAt its most basic level, citizenship is about who belongs to a political community, and for Abraham Lincoln in…
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Lincoln and Citizenship
Exploring Lincoln's Evolving Views of CitizenshipAt its most basic level, citizenship is about who belongs to a political community, and for Abraham Lincoln in nineteenth-century America, the answer was in flux. In this first book focused on the topic, Mark E. The concept of "fellow citizens," for Lincoln, encompassed different groups at different times.
He rejected the adherence to universal white male suffrage that had existed in Illinois since statehood. Steiner analyzes and contextualizes Lincoln's evolving views about citizenship over the course of his political career.As an Illinois state legislator, Lincoln subscribed to the by-then-outmoded belief that suffrage must be limited to those who met certain obligations to the state. In 1836 Lincoln called for voting rights to be limited to white people who had served in the militia or paid taxes.
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Lincoln and Citizenship