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Date "CITIZEN'S" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Citizenship is membership in a political community (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 be a national 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.) See nationality for further discussion of how citizenship can be acquired, etc.
See also:
- jus sanguinis
- jus soli
- dual citizenship
- Britishness test
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Citizenship."
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