Beyond the Sovereign State
This chapter explores efforts to rethink the meaning of political belonging. It delineates various models of citizenship found in Angloworld debate, focusing in particular on isopolitanism. The chapter examines the most authoritative account of isopolity, propounded by the famed legal theorist Albert Venn Dicey, before surveying other articulations of the idea, including those of Andrew Carnegie, W. T. Stead, and H. G. Wells. The penultimate section analyzes race patriotism. Just as citizenship was rearticulated as a form of identification with the Anglo-Saxon or English race, so too was patriotic regard: individuals owed allegiance to a nested set of communities, including their country and their race. Ultimately, the chapter offers a discussion of political symbolism, showing how race unionists designed rituals and markers of identity — from flags to public holidays — that evoked and glorified Anglo-America.