Is National Citizenship Irrelevant Outside the United States?

Citizenship in Athens and Rome has similarities and differences. Being a citizen is being a native or naturalized member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to its government. Being a citizen meant different things in each empire. The relationship between the citizen and their nation varied from their system of citizenship. Rome had a better system of citizenship because they were more open to who they allowed citizenship, they gave people they conquered citizenship, and personal grudges, judgements about others/topics would not affect the Empire.

Even though Rome allowed more people to become a citizen, unlike Athens, it did not always mean that they received equal rights. (Document B and C)

Citizenship will always be a relevant concept because when you are a citizen of a particular country it comes with a sense of belonging. There is a feeling of pride when you become a citizen of a country. In particular, if your family is from that country it can help to gain a sense of community with those around you. It is important for people to feel that they are citizens of the same country as their children. Sometimes legal citizenship changes a person’s perspective and they feel that they belong but often there is still a chance people may be excluded based on external factors, for example, they have a different religion to the majority of a particular community. That’s why it is important for people to be social citizens as well so that they can

According to the Oxford dictionary the term citizenship can be defined as: “The state of being vested with the rights and privileges, and duties of a citizen.” In the short story ‘Borders’ by Thomas King the term citizenship is of main focus. Through the many borders that are presented within the story, King argues that citizenship overlooks culture and heritage, instead focusing on a single border: that being where the individual resides. The short story is narrated from the young boy’s perspective, as him and his mother struggle to cross the Canadian-American border to visit the young boy’s sister Latitia. The young boy and his mother are not able to cross the border

     All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to      the      jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State      wherein they      reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge      the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State      deprive any      person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor      deny to any      person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws      (http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Amend.html ).

In James Buck essay, “citizenship and Military Service: The Quest for inclusion by Minorities and conscientious Objectors”, he discusses why every citizen in this our liberal democracies should be given equal status and recognitions in our political communities. He makes his analysis by comparing the various researches other social and political scientist have made about citizenship in the eighteenth centuries and how political inequalities have limited or change the realization of equal claim of citizenship. He also emphasizes that citizenship is not about the wealth or the amount of power one has, but it’s rather the respect and recognitions from our fellow citizen. He supports his argument with Max Weber studies that “the subject of class, power and status are relatively independent dimensions of ones standing in society”. He also discusses the “changes in

Also in the past citizen of the United States, didn't become "real,natural citizen, until you answered this question: “What is the most important right granted to U.S. citizens?” The correct answer, according to the United States government, is , “The right to vote.” But that “right” has always been on shaky ground. Just as the Constitution once countenanced slavery, it also allowed voting to be restricted to property-holding white men. The Thirteenth Amendment expunged the stain of slavery from our basic law, but the Constitution has never fulfilled the democratic promise we associate with it. In 1868, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and

When thinking about rights of citizenship I think about the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights tells us the

Citizenship is highly coveted in many nations, so coveted in fact that through only a few processes can one become a citizen for most nations, might that process be natural birth or naturalization. Citizenship and its privileges were also highly valued in Rome, except becoming a citizen was extremely difficult if not impossible. Roman citizenship also leads to assassinations and war within the Italian peninsula. There is a complex history to Roman citizenship.

Before discussing Joppke's theory in greater detail, it is useful to at least acknowledge that the concept of citizenship as it is commonly considered today did not arise until relatively recently. Though notions of citizenship explicitly tied to a particular nation-state can be traced

Civil citizenship and social citizenship are two aspects of the same theory i.e. social welfare. They appear to be the forces which if managed well, will keep the society in balance ensuring the rights of every citizen are respected and provided by the state and other institutions. However, today's American society is more prone to viewing civil citizenship as more reputable attribute guaranteeing prestige and status in society whereas social citizenship is perceived as stigmatic and abhorrent. Although American society bears all the elements required for social citizenship in its foundation however the dominance provided to civil citizenship has changed the outlook of American society in past few centuries. Since civil citizenship ensures that the state and the citizen are involved in equilateral contract, therefore it is considered to guarantee esteem whereas social citizenship is synonymous to unilateral contract where the state is offering necessary services without receiving anything in return; this ideology demeans the stature of social citizenship.

Historically, citizenship has been associated with the privileges given to a particular member that is involved within a political party or community. Those particular members who held certain statues were able to participate with their fellow citizens in

The right to citizenship is one of the fundamental human rights guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This declaration was signed by all EU Member States and supposed to eliminate the stateless individual as a counterpart to the “national” (Icelandic Human Rights centre). In fact, statelessness nowadays affects more than 600,000 people in Europe and still remains a hidden phenomenon with

There have been a lot of contributions by scholars to the widely discussed topic of European citizenship. In his article Espen D.H. Olsen argues in contrast to many others, “that the Maastricht Treaty was not year zero in the EU citizenship discourse” (Olsen 2008, p. 40). His study deals with the time before the general discussion over the European citizenship started in the 1970s (cf. ibid, p. 41ff.) The article’s main finding states that European citizenship has been in existence from the European integration’s starting point, the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). Olsen defines his concept of citizenship “as a status of individuals in relation to a political unit” (ibid, p. 41) which he divides in the four dimensions

The state cannot provide its services rightly in the people of the society without citizenship. It becomes a great muddle when there is no citizenship in the state. Now ,let us discuss how do I encounter state and citizenship in daily life.