to be the primary candidates for global citizenship, yet continue to live without access to basic freedoms and citizenship rights. Byers does not oppose the concept of global citizenship, however, he criticizes potential implications of the term depending on one's definition of it, such as ones that provide support for the "ruthlessly capitalist economic system that now dominates the planet." Byers states that global citizenship is a "powerful term" because "people that invoke it do so to provoke and justify action," and encourages the attendees of his lecture to re-appropriate it in order for its meaning to have a positive purpose, based on idealistic values. Neither criticism of global citizenship is anything new. Gouverneur Morris, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention (United States), criticized "citizens of the world" while he was on the floor of the convention on 9 August 1787:As to those philosophical gentlemen, those Citizens of the World as they call themselves, He owned he did not wish to see any of them in our public Councils. He would not trust them. The men who can shake off their attachments to their own Country can never love any other. These attachments are the wholesome prejudices which uphold all Governments, Admit a Frenchman into your Senate, and he will study to increase the commerce of France: an Englishman, and he will feel an equal bias in favor of that of England. See also Alter-globalisation Anti-patriotism Cosmopolitanism Global civics Global Citizens Movement Global democracy (disambiguation) Global governance Global justice Globality Netizen Open borders Postnationalism Subsidiarity Spaceship Earth Think globally, act locally Transnationalism World community Global union References External links World Citizen Foundation World Citizen UBC Defining and Modeling World Citizen Oxfam: Women and citizenship in global teacher education: The Global-ITE project Citizenship Political philosophy Citizenship Cosmopolitanism Global culture Global governance