Citizenship

:For other uses, see citizen (disambiguation).

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Citizenship is membership in a political community (originally a city but now usually a state), and carries with it rights to political participation; a person having such membership is a citizen. It is largely coterminous with nationality, although it is possible to have a nationality without being a citizen (i.e. be legally subject to a state and entitled to its protection without having rights of political participation in it); it is also possible to have political rights without being a national of a state - for example a citizen of a Commonwealth country resident in the United Kingdom is entitled to full political rights.

Related Topics:
City - State - Rights - Nationality - Subject - Commonwealth - United Kingdom

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See nationality for further discussion of the properties of national citizenship and how it can be acquired.

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Citizenship also often implies working towards the betterment of the community one lives in through participation, volunteer work and efforts to improve life for all citizens. In this vein, some schools in England and Wales give citizenship lessons – a slight variation of Personal and Social Education.

Related Topics:
Community - School - England and Wales - Personal and Social Education

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