HR-3210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Alexis De Tocqueville, Nuremberg Principles, Big Umbrella
25 Jun 2018
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Lecture fourteen
The first concept of citizenship means you are ruled but also rule. You elect those who will rule
you."
The second is that it gives you membership in a certain community. IE: Ability to vote. "
The state cannot be separated from the citizen: The charter having negative and positive duties,
is both reflected in the citizen and the state. "
With this comes rights and duties, and the lack of exclusion. (Should non-citizens be covered
constitutionally). "
The right to life, liberty and property: Locke and the social contract. "
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Elements of citizenship: A right is the ability to require the performance of a specific
duty. - Don Carmichael!
THREE CATEGORIES: Civil, Political, and Social - These revolutions have established a
basis of citizenship. !
CIVIL: Liberty of the person, freedom of speech, thought and faith, right to property, right
to defend and assert one’s right one equal terms with other through due process of law, and
main institutions such as judiciary."
POLITICAL: Right to participate in the exercise of political power: to be elected to office
or to elect others, and Main institutions which are elected bodies of government.
SOCIAL: Provides you with the right to basic economic welfare and security: Minimum
provision, taxes given back, right to share in full in the social heritage, Right to live life according
to standards prevailing in society, Institutions such as educational and social like police and
ambulances.
Civil Society is a concept, a theory and a model. "
What is it officially? A public space, arena or sphere where citizens come together where
citizens practice their right to associate with one another which is independent of the state in
order to create a network of links and organizations to promote their collective identities and to
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Document Summary
The rst concept of citizenship means you are ruled but also rule. The second is that it gives you membership in a certain community. The state cannot be separated from the citizen: the charter having negative and positive duties, is both re ected in the citizen and the state. With this comes rights and duties, and the lack of exclusion. (should non-citizens be covered constitutionally). The right to life, liberty and property: locke and the social contract. Elements of citizenship: a right is the ability to require the performance of a speci c duty. Three categories: civil, political, and social - these revolutions have established a basis of citizenship. Civil: liberty of the person, freedom of speech, thought and faith, right to property, right to defend and assert one"s right one equal terms with other through due process of law, and main institutions such as judiciary.
