Citizens Flashcards
What is a simplistic definition of citizen?
Anyone who has legal membership in a country.
What is a complex definition of citizen?
Having a full menu of rights and obligations in relation to other citizens and the state.
Most definitions of citizenship includes 3 tenets:
- Inclusions and exclusions of membership.
- Rights and duties in relation to the community.
- Participation in the political process.
What are the two opposing views on citizenship?
- For citizenship to be meaningful, it should be limited.
- Citizenship should be freely available to all settled members of a community and all individuals should be treated the same way.
What are some different gradations of citizenship?
Foreign workers, who get no rights. Permanent residents, who have some rights, but cannot vote or run for office. Refugees have limited rights, but can apply for full citizenship later on.
What are the three components of citizenship rights?
Civil, political, and social.
Civil rights emerged in the ___ century.
18th.
Political rights emerged in the ___ century.
19th.
Social rights emerged in the ___ century.
20th.
What are civil rights?
Rights necessary for individual freedoms (such as liberty, speech, thoughts, etc.)
What are political rights?
Includes the right to vote and the right to run for office.
What are social rights?
Right to a minimum standard of economic living.
It is only recently that ___, ___, and ___ were considered citizens.
Women, men of colour, and indigenous men.
The system of citizenship was founded on the ___ of people.
Exclusion.
What is an example of how how citizenship is based on exclusion.
Women were excluded, as they were expected to stay home and raise the children while the men went out and did political things. Indigenous people were excluded so that the Europeans could justify taking away land and resources.
