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A passport with opinions and jury duty attached.
means A person who legally belongs to a particular country or state, with the rights and duties that come bundled with that membership.
from From Old French 'citeain,' meaning a town-dweller, which traces to Latin 'civitas' — city, or more precisely the body of citizens that made up a city-state. The underlying Latin root 'civis' meant a member of a community with legal standing, distinct from a slave or foreigner. So the word's whole career has been a march from 'person who lives in the city' to 'person who belongs to the state' — the jury duty was implied from the start.
- origin
- from latin civis, city-dweller with rights
- not same as
- nationality can exist without citizenship rights
- oldest trick
- rome sold citizenship to buy loyalty
- modern twist
- some nations sell passports for cash today