What does citizenship mean today? How
does this meaning or set of meanings differ
from what it has meant in the past and what
it may mean in the future? To the question
of the distinctive modern meaning of
citizenship, we scholars can give some
reasonably concrete and widely accepted
answers. The question as to what modern
citizenship is becoming is one that many
people are also answering, but they are
doing so in ways that go well beyond what
scholars can hope to determine, either in
theory or practice. That is essentially as it
should be, I believe; but I shall nonetheless
seek to say something about where modern
citizenship may be going.