We are left with an ambiguous Kantian legacy: while
liberals attempt to expand the circumstances to which firstadmittance
obligations would apply by building more conditions
into the phrase “the destruction of the other,” such as
economic welfare considerations
civic republicans and defenders of national sovereignty point
to Kant’s condemnation of world government, as well as to
his insistence upon the prerogative of the sovereign to grant
membership, in order to justify the rights of national states to