ABSTRACT
We thus move directly to the third gate, barring the entrance to an immigration state, the gate a foreign citizens must pass through to get the status of a full citizen. Later in this book, we shall return to the path leading up to this third gate, in order to discuss the political rights and the political participation of denizens. We choose to arrange our discussion in this order, because an acquisition of full citizenship is the traditional or "normal" way to obtain political rights, while the granting of political rights to denizens is a new form, breaking previous traditions, in a situation, in which the flow through the third gate is slow.
