Citizenship shifted from automatic mass grant to individual earned privilege

Evidence

The only difference compared to the founding years of the Sec- ond and Third Republics was that, whereas in the nineteenth cen- tury citizenship and its attendant rights had been automatically ex- tended en masse to the male inhabitants of France’s oldest colonies, these same rights would now have to be earned individually. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 358

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• XREF: Useful contrast with the Four Communes and older colonies for the reader’s understanding of republican imposition models.