Citizenship and fundamental values that arranged in the community
Research Abstract
The concept of citizenship of the most complex concepts in spite of its importance for the understanding and analysis of many of the political, social and cultural phenomena in any society, and the clear importance in that it is an indication of the extent to which human his rights and economic, social, civil and political rights. Has won this concept in recently and since about the mid-seventies much attention on the global level
, And on the theoretical level, where it focused on the literature of political theory (1).
The concept of citizenship, a classical ideas in political thought - social. You can trace the history of approaching citizenship in endoscopy for the emergence of the state as a political entity, and more precisely in the theory of the rise of the modern nation-state in Europe, where the focus is on the idea of the nation-state as a unit of individuals with legal rights and equal Centers (2).
The emergence of the nation-state of the supporting factors that laid the contemporary citizenship, and appeared with the rule of law, which began to spread in European civilization, and that's when the nation-state began in Europe interested in the issuance of general laws, and became 'sheets instruments are governing the political, economic and social men relationship, at least As far as organized by the sword '(3).
So, it demonstrated the importance of the nation-state was the first in being the guarantor of citizens' rights. Due the onset of the nation-state in Europe and the Treaty of Westphalia, which occurred years 1648 to end the long-standing religious war, lasted a hundred years, it has been under the treaty division of Europe to the state in accordance with the religion of every governor, approved the Treaty principle of the sovereignty of the nation-state, and recognized her safe and specific limits stipulated not to interfere in the internal affairs of this country (4).
Research Keywords
concept of citizenship