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The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration: Principles and Challenges in America
Author(s): Thomas G. West (Author), Edward J. Erler (Author), John Marini (Author)
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
- Publication Date: 15 Feb. 2007
- Language: English
- Print length: 178 pages
- ISBN-10: 0742558541
- ISBN-13: 9780742558540
Book Description
Working with the underlying premise that Americas founding principles continue to be vital in the modern era, Erler, Marini, and West take a conservative look at immigration, one of todays most pressing political issues. Character—the capacity to live a life befitting republican citizens—is, as the Founders knew, crucial to the debate about immigration. The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration seeks to revive the issue of republican character in the current immigration debate and to elucidate the constitutional foundations of American citizenship.
Published in cooperation with the Claremont Institute.
Editorial Reviews
Review
The economic, social, and cultural concerns about massive illegal immigration from Mexico have long been discussed. But rarely have we examined the massive influx in historical and legal terms of citizenship―how did the founders and their successors deal with problems of being an American, and what are the effects of massive noncompliance with the laws of the United States? Edward J. Erler, John Marini, and Thomas G. West are to be congratulated for their sober exploration of the racial and class considerations that seem to prevent us from enforcing the very laws that we have passed. — Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution and author of Mexifornia: A State of Becoming
About the Author
Edward J. Erler is Professor of Political Science emeritus at California State University, San Bernardino, and is a senior fellow of The Claremont Institute. He is the author of The American Polity: Essays on the Theory and Practice of Constitutional Government, co-author of The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration, and has published numerous articles in law reviews and professional journals. Among his most recent articles are “The Decline and Fall of the Right to Property: Government as Universal Landlord;” and “The Second Amendment as a Reflection of First Principles;” he has also published several articles in the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. Dr. Erler was a member of the California Advisory Commission on Civil Rights from 1988-2006 and served on the California Constitutional Revision Commission in 1996. He has testified before the House and Senate Judiciary Committee on birthright citizenship, voting rights and other civil rights issues.
