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What is citizenship?

You may have heard the word citizenship, right? But do you know what it is? Citizenship is an expression that comes from the Latin civitas, which means “city”.

In summary, the term is intrinsic to the individual's sense of belonging to a community articulated for political purposes.

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This is the example of a country, Brazil, which describes a grouping of rights and obligations through a constitution, the Constitution of 1988.

origin of citizenship

A origin of citizenship would be remote to Ancient Greece, when only people born on Greek soil were considered citizens.

Even, for a long time, foreigners and women were not entitled to the regime of democracy, without voting rights.

Rights to life, equality, freedom, property were not granted to everyone either, and still aren't. Many people live on the streets, without the minimum conditions for food, lacking vacancies for beds in hospitals and without basics, such as access to water.

Visibility is not common to everyone, especially in a context marked by so many social, ethnic, economic and political conflicts. Thus, citizenship remains in an evolutionary process, being a goal to be achieved.

Citizen and citizenship

From a legal perspective, citizen he is the one who enjoys his civil, political and social rights. Therefore, citizenship would be the quality of being a citizen, someone with rights and duties in the social context.

The applicability of citizenship is extremely important for social organization to be carried out closer to equity.

In this way, people would be aware of their rights, as well as their obligations, striving for both to be put into practice.

Citizenship and State

You citizens and the state have allied functions. On the one hand, citizens are part of the creation of the State, being subjects of the pact that founded them — the Federal Constitution of 1988. Thus, being the State of the citizens themselves, it is their responsibility to care for, supervise and regulate the public power.

In another bias, state agents have attributions of public servants, exercising their functions through four pillars — legality, impersonality, morality and publicity. Thus, the balance between the State and citizens is the daily quest for the evolution of full citizenship.

However, the concept of citizenship is not just a duty of the State. In fact, it comprises even more responsibility of the citizen, in order to assign the common good as the greatest assumption in their daily practices.

Human rights

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Photo: United Nations).

From the perspective of common rights, are the human rights, regardless of ethnicity, language, nationality, religion, race, sex or any other condition.

In order to achieve a common standard for all peoples and nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

Translated into more than 500 languages, covering different regions of the world and cultural origins, the document was proclaimed on December 10, 1948.

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