As civilization pushes headlong into the twenty-first century, increasingly stringent demands for citizenship issue forth from governments around the world faced with a formidable assortment of challenges. Faced with these challenges, states are exploring ways to elicit civic attachments from their heterogeneous populations, but doing so is proving difficult given that former ways of belonging fail to resonate with a large portion of the citizenry. Modes of belonging pull in conflicting directions and the absence of a shared civic vision in particular is salient. While the reasons for the discordance are complex--there are economic, social, and cultural causes and effects--they certainly are aggravated by the very presence of different cultures, religions, and political views existing side by side without a shared civic vision. Beyond the particulars that define legal residency, citizenship arguably consists of shared membership in a political space on the basis of mutual rights and responsibilities broadly understood. In this article, the author discusses the possibility of a shared notion of citizenship in plural societies. (Contains 6 footnotes.)