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'''Citizenship''' status often implies some responsibilities and duties under [[social contract theory]]. "Active citizenship" is the philosophy that citizens should work towards the betterment of their [[community]] through economic participation, public service, [[volunteer]] work, and other such efforts to improve life for all citizens. In this vein, [[school]]s in some countries provide citizenship [[education]].
'''Citizenship''' status often implies some responsibilities and duties under [[social contract theory]]. "Active citizenship" is the philosophy that citizens should work towards the betterment of their [[community]] through economic participation, public service, [[volunteer]] work, and other such efforts to improve life for all citizens. In this vein, [[school]]s in some countries provide citizenship [[education]].
==Origins==
[ME. citesein, etc., a. Anglo-Fr. citeseyn, -zein, sithezein, altered form of OF. citeain, citehain, citein, citeen, citien, citain, later citeyen, citoyen:L. type *cvittn-um, f. cvitt-em city (cf. oppidn-um, villn-um); Romanic type civtatno, -dano, whence Pr. ciutadan, Sp. ciudadano, Pg. ciudadão; and Pr. ciptadan, It. cittadano, now cittadino, OF. cite(h)ain. The intercalation of s (z) in Anglo-Fr. citesain has not been explained: association with dainzain denizen, which was often an equivalent term, has been suggested. The suggestion that z was a mistaken reading of , meaning y, on the part of a 13th or 14th c. scribe or scribes, is in every respect untenable.]
==Definitions==
*1. An inhabitant of a [[city]] or (often) of a town; esp. one possessing civic rights and privileges, a burgess or freeman of a city.
:b. Used also as feminine. (Cf. CITIZENESS.)
:c. A townsman, as opposed to a countryman.
:d. A civilian as distinguished from a [[soldier]]; in earlier times also distinguished from a member of the landed nobility or [[gentry]]. Johnson says ‘a man of trade, not a gentleman’.
:e. With reference to the ‘heavenly city’, the [[New Jerusalem]].
*2. A member of a [[state]], an enfranchised inhabitant of a country, as opposed to an alien; in U.S., a [[person]], native or naturalized, who has the privilege of voting for [[public]] offices, and is entitled to full protection in the exercise of [[private]] rights.
==Quote==
The attainment of a high cultural [[civilization]] demands, first, the [[ideal]] type of citizen and, then, ideal and adequate social [[mechanisms]] wherewith such a citizenry may control the [[economic]] and [[political]] institutions of such an advanced [[human]] [[society]].[http://www.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper99.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper99.html&line=62#mfs]
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