POLA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Some Cities, Transnationalism, Roman Citizenship
5 Nov 2014
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Overview: what is citizenship, historical development of citizenship, becoming a citizen: birth and naturalization, trends in citizenship. Revocation of citizenship on security grounds: citizenship and inequality. Citizenship entails membership in a political community. Greek philosopher: plato"s most famous student. Wrote the politics : declared that humans are political animals , human beings are driven to interact with one another, making us unique, don"t just live together to procreate, facilitated by speech. Justice: aristotle argues that what we aim through politics is justice: the establishment. Humans live together to strive for something better. Equal legal status; all citizens enjoy the same privileges and responsibilities. Roman empire was too big for all citizens to be active political participants. Equal subjects to the roman emperor: paul of tarsus was arrested for spreading christianity and was tried by. Instead of being tortured to death, he was beheaded because he was a roman citizen. Rebirth of democracy: venice, low countries.
