Talk:History of U.S. citizenship

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This is a good article on an interesting subject -- why has citizenship declined. This article may need to be split into different articles (it's getting long). What needs expanding (in my view) is more of the legal aspects of citizenship (or perhaps this could be a separate article), particularly constitutional provisions regarding citizenship. Further, the economic aspects are a big (perhaps overlooked) area here -- how a vibrant consumer economy, terrific jobs & career possibilities -- these things became more important and enabled people to focus less on citizenship. A person with a great job and money didn't need to pay attention to local politics. Another aspect of this (somewhat touched on by Kaplan) is that in some respects it's good if people don't pay much attention to politics since they can focus on their careers, inventions, growing the economy -- and this has positive aspects as well. The transformative affects (ie slew of factors pushing people away from local town meetings) needs more sources too. I'll try to expand this when I get the time.--Thomas Wright Sulcer 12:52, 22 March 2010 (UTC)