CITIZENSHIP AND MODERN DEMOCRACY STATES

Abstract

Citizenship as one of the concepts of social theory awakens interest of various disciplinary approaches, from philosophy, over the legal theory to sociology and antropology. This paper is about the relationship between states and citizens. The first question to pose here is whether tha state can be democratically organized and at the same time make the same treatment for all its citizens? It could be said that in modern political history there is no such dynamic figure like that of citizen whose idea in itself strongly sums up the aspirations of people for equality and desire for freedom. Citizenship is nothing but the combined action of free people of equal status who want to form the common good of the political community. The principle of citizenship is a kind of social contract governing the relations between citizens and their political community.