Citizenship is the status of being a legally recognized member of a nation-state or other political community, possessing rights such as voting and owing duties such as jury service. In democratic thought, citizens generally are expected to be more...

Only a state, that is, an internationally recognized entity, can grant a person citizenship. One cannot be a citizen of an ethnic group or of a nationality which is not organized as a state. Nor is citizenship confined to democratic states. The...

Citizenship as an idea was revived in the 1980s. In Western Europe and North America there was a growing concern that Western individualism and consumerist lifestyles had eroded the importance of political community. In the face of new questions being...

At its core, citizenship is a legal status, although increasingly political theorists are seeking to return the concept to an earlier usage when it was, in their view, much more than that. As a legal status the grant of citizenship gives people rights...

Citizenship is membership in a political community (originally a city or town but now usually a country) and carries with it rights to political participation; a person having such membership is a citizen. It is largely coterminous with nationality,...

Candice Lewis Bredbenner, A Nationality of Her Own: Women, Marriage, and the Law of Citizens hip. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998. ii + 294 pages. $45.00 cloth. Rogers M. Smith, Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History....

She was posed sideways on some sort of cushionless banquette, perhaps even a slab of marble. The background was likewise cold and blank, a clinically lit wall or scrim. No texture or curves but those of young female flesh. Her dark hair appeared freshly...

Six soldiers deployed to the Mexican border became U.S. citizens Friday, apparently the first troops to take advantage of expedited citizenship rules while deployed to keep out illegal immigrants.The six members of the Texas National Guard were among those sent to aid the Border Patrol...

Eight immigrants who have waited years for their citizenship applications to clear tougher post-9/11 background checks claim in a lawsuit filed Thursday that the delays violate their constitutional rights of due process.The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco and names the...

Citizenship it seems is a contested term, difficult to define with many contrasting, often contradictory elements. It does however, in theory at least, highlight a largely positive approach; an ideal from which we all can learn. Although the seemingly hypocritical nature modern citizenship seems to assimilate, I suppose it deserves to be viewed and understood in context.

Defines active citizenship. Questions if active citizenship is a waste of time. Explores ways in which citizens can take an active role in the society we live in.

What it takes to be a good citizen, and its rights and responsibilities.