A citizen is a member of political community endowed with rights & duties. Examine this statement in context of citizenship.

To examine the subtleness of this statement, let us first look at the basic meanings of the terms involved: a citizen, a community, a political community and how all these terms related to each other. A citizen is a term used to differentiate between recognized and unrecognized people in a community. So, a citizen is a recognized member of a particular community/state. Community: a community is a set of people who interact with each other and exchange their ideas and beliefs and agree upon common notions and interests. All such people who can be consulted to frame policies and thus bound by those policies are members of that community. Similarly, I define a community as follows. A political community is the association of people who participate in taking political decisions of that community either directly or indirectly and those who are affected by them. So, in a way, every member of a community is a member of political community because each and every member of a community is affected by political decisions or is one of their makers. Based on the above definitions, it can be safely concluded that every member of a community is automatically linked with the political affairs of that community and thus, recognized and hence are citizens. As put by Marshall, citizenship is a status attached to full membership of a community and those who posses this are equal in respect of rights and duties associated with it. So basically, a citizen and his/her community are related, I will enlist some of the way in which these two are related. Citizenship is an issue which has been discussed re-discussed, invented and re-invented nut some of the key elements remained same whatsoever. Citizenship is a relationship between an individual and the state by which the former owes allegiance and the latter owes protection.