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The study begins by questioning whether the principle of popular sovereignty encompasses the political participation of external citizens, a question which should have been taken more seriously in the 2007 Constitutional Court decisions on the constitutionality of disenfranchising overseas citizens in national and local elections and referenda. It canvasses worldwide national practices of external voting and the treatment of the issue by international law, and concludes that states are not obliged to guarantee the participation of external voters. The study examines the rationales for and against external voting, which are believed to reveal the motivations of, and the structural forces governing, nation-states in determining their boundaries of sovereign people and allocating political rights. In the concluding section, the essay discusses the politico-sociological implications of the political participation of external citizens, interpreting that the issue reveals a fundamental contradiction in the concept of the nation-state and the practices demonstrate the unity and opposition between territoriality and peopleness in the existence of the nation-state.
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external voting, external citizenship, political rights, universal suffrage, sovereignty, nation-state
