citizen
Let an agent explain citizenship and the citizen, relay legal principles, acquisition and rights from comparative law and political theory sources with attribution, describe historical categories such as census language groups and non-returners, and distinguish citizen from national, resident, subject and stateless person, without giving personal legal advice.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain citizenship and the citizen, relay legal principles, acquisition and rights from comparative law and political theory sources with attribution, describe historical categories such as census language groups and non-returners, and distinguish citizen from national, resident, subject and stateless person, without giving personal legal advice.
A person who is a legal member of a state, with rights such as residence, voting and protection and duties such as obedience to law, acquired by birth, descent or naturalisation, as in a Japanese citizen or the language groups counted as Austrian citizens in historical censuses; the registry aliases also list nevozvrashchentsy, Soviet citizens who refused to return from abroad, a historical category rather than a kind of citizen.
What it is for: Not applicable; a legal and political status.
It can be explain the status; relay law and theory; describe historical categories; distinguish related statuses.
Distinguishing features
Legal membership
Rights and duties
Acquisition rules
Historical categories
What it looks like
Not a visible object; a person with a legal status.
Physical character
acquisition principles: jus soli, jus sanguinis, naturalisation list
stateless people worldwide: about 4.4 million - UNHCR estimates
Austrian censuses by language: 1880-1910 period
How it is recognised
Legal member of a state
Japanese citizen, Austrian citizens by language, nevozvrashchentsy
Nationals may lack full rights; residents are not necessarily citizens; subjects belong to a monarch; stateless people have no citizenship
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
holds - of a state
is contrasted with - who has no citizenship
is theorised in - from Aristotle to Marshall
In practice
Families and kinds
citizens by birth and descent
naturalised citizens
dual and multiple citizens
citizens of specific states such as Japanese citizens
historical census categories such as Austrian citizens by language of use
historical political categories such as nevozvrashchentsy
Standards and regulation
National citizenship and nationality laws
Universal Declaration of Human Rights article 15
Conventions on statelessness
Failure modes and hazards
Agents giving personal immigration or citizenship advice
Confusing citizen with national or resident
Registry aliases naming historical census and political categories
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.citizen
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What a citizen is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a citizen, and how does the status differ from national, resident, subject and stateless person? definition
- Is the question about the concept, a country s law, a historical category or a personal case needing a lawyer? boundary
Acquisition
Acquisition and loss.
Acquisition
Acquisition.
- How is citizenship acquired by birth, descent and naturalisation, and how can it be lost, in general terms? definition
- Which entry fits the specific country? action
Rights Rights and duties.
Regulation.
Rights
Rights.
Rights
Rights.
- What rights and duties attach to citizenship, and how do they vary? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Theory
Theory.
Theory
Theory.
- How do political theorists from Aristotle to Marshall and beyond conceive citizenship, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
History Historical categories.
Attribution.
Census
Austrian census groups.
Census
Census.
- How did Austrian censuses count citizens by language of use, and why does it matter historically? provenance
- Which entry fits the Austro-Hungarian census? action
Soviet
Non-returners.
Soviet
Soviet.
- Who were the nevozvrashchentsy, and how did the Soviet state treat them, as historians describe? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral and attributed? boundary
Context Contemporary issues.
Context.
Statelessness
Statelessness.
Statelessness
Statelessness.
- What is statelessness, and how do international conventions address it? provenance
- Which entry fits statelessness? action
Debates
Debates.
Debates
Debates.
- What debates surround dual citizenship, citizenship by investment and revocation, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits citizenship law? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should citizenship and statelessness be the primary linked entries?
- How should comparative law sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming Austrian census groups and Soviet non-returners; should they be split off?