The former hold that certain groups whose memberships are defined by what are sometimes called ascriptive characteristics, simply by virtue of being those sorts of groups, have a unilateral (claim -) right to secede.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secession] Reference

The rest of the Democratic base is ideological, not ascriptive, in nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lincoln Mitchell: What Is the Democratic Party Base?] Reference

“Scaling intergenerational continuity: is occupational inheritance ascriptive after all?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Population of the United States] Reference

A caste system assigns children and young adults to occupations based on their ascriptive status.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference

The group need not be institutionalised as a group, nor need it be distinguished by a common ascriptive feature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Group Rights] Reference

These administrative and ascriptive categories have been created to deal with the multiple statuses of membership in democratic societies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contested Citizenships] Reference

People do not choose to be members of these “ascriptive” groups, nor can they easily leave them as they might leave a club or association.    From Wordnik.com.  [Group Rights] Reference

The only ascriptive identity-based groups that reliably vote Democratic, at least at the national level, are Jews, gays and lesbians and African Americans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lincoln Mitchell: What Is the Democratic Party Base?] Reference

Governments could not use ascriptive characteristics to perpetuate hierarchies that interfered with the prospect of a person pursuing a career suitable to his or her talents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tushnet on The Meritocratic Egalitarianism of Thurgood Marshall] Reference

The same is true of Kant's views on consciousness of self; cognitive science has paid no attention to non-ascriptive identification of self and the idea of the essential indexical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kant's View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self] Reference

And, conversely, policies aimed at eliminating the use of ascriptive characteristics to perpetuate such hierarchies-what has come to be known as affirmative action-were entirely proper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tushnet on The Meritocratic Egalitarianism of Thurgood Marshall] Reference

Marshall was also extremely sensitive to the range of bad reasons people gave for perpetuating hierarchies ordered by ascriptive characteristics-race most obviously, but also gender, class, and disability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tushnet on The Meritocratic Egalitarianism of Thurgood Marshall] Reference

One potential reason for the legal distinction between racial, ethnic, national or religious mass killings is that those classifications usually are applied to children as well as adults and are often ascriptive, not avowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Is “Genocide” Really Worse than “Mere” Mass Murder?] Reference

"When you make appointments based on particular ascriptive criteria, the justice sooner or later could say, 'Oh, OK, I better reflect the desires of the constituency to which I belong," says Stephen Presser, a legal historian at Northwestern University.    From Wordnik.com.  [Court Opening Prompts Question] Reference

Plebiscitary Theories in contrast hold that a unilateral moral claim-right to secede exists if a majority residing in a portion of the state chooses to have their own state there, regardless of whether or not they have any common characteristics, ascriptive or otherwise, other than the desire for independence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secession] Reference

Whereas Smith suggests that racism has been rooted in a discrete, ascriptive/ethnonational tradition that has existed throughout US history alongside liberalism and republicanism, Basson argues that “racism was inherent in the full range of political discourses in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century” p.180.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purcell on Federalism and Originalism, Basson on Race Mixing, new books on the Bush Administration, Executive Orders, and more] Reference

Since, on Kant's view, it is not just identifying properties but any properties of oneself whatsoever that one does not need to know in order to refer to oneself as oneself, ˜non-ascriptive reference to self™ might capture what is special about this form of consciousness of self better than Shoemaker's ˜self-reference without identification™.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kant's View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self] Reference

Gandhi has been perhaps the pioneer in creating an ascriptive and patronizing label for Dalits in modern times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Countercurrents.org] Reference

It's as if they could no longer appreciate the difference between functional elites and the ascriptive elites of estates in early modern societies.    From Wordnik.com.  [signandsight.com] Reference

Where the vast majority of immigrants are admitted on the basis of ascriptive kinship criteria, family matters - and will continue to matter - in the future direction of immigration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concurring Opinions] Reference

“exercising” them, such as groups distinguished merely by an ascriptive identity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Group Rights] Reference

This emphasis on race, ethnicity, and gender leads to group consciousness and a de-emphasis of the individual’s capacity for choice and for transcendence of ascriptive categories, joining with others beyond the confines of social class, tribe, and gender to create a cohesive nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [2008 February 25 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference

And one’s position within these ascriptive systems also has implications for the class system; thus black workers faced a different working environment than white workers in the Detroit auto industry in the 1950s and 1960s, and female workers earn less than male workers in many businesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Power and class in the 21st century] Reference

Meanwhile, with Iraqis quoted on the "positive" role Iran has played in their country, the story divagates oddly into a range of ascriptive statements ( "it appears that"; "according to American officials"; "the Americans say"; "they say"; "according to American officials"; "the American officials said"; "an American official said"; "the official summed up") -- all regarding the presence, intentions, and actions of Iranians in Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Bromwich: Hezbollah Is in Iran, Michael Gordon Says American Officials Say] Reference