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WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
From the onset of the war on terror, there has been a slippage of constitutional rights for citizens.
The degradation of rights includes rights of citizenship and rights to citizenship.
The courts have offered some remedy, but the impact has been neither comprehensive enough nor timely enough.
The slippery slope of eroding citizenship rights is a challenge to democracy itself.
The current degradation of citizenship, and the protections it provides, threatens to reduce everyone—not just non-citizens, or those whose citizenship has been revoked—to a state of civic abandonment.
This report is part of “Citizenship and Its Discontents: The Struggle for Rights, Pluralism, and Inclusion in the Middle East,” a TCF project supported by the Henry Luce Foundation.