citizen

is one who is able to participate in the political life of the state: To hold political office, help administer justice, and legislate. So citizens must be actual or potential rulers of the state.

Aristotle classifies constitutions according to the number of citizens in the state and for whose benefit they ruled. A citizen, for Aristotle, is one who is able to participate in the political life of the state: to hold political office, help administer justice, and legislate. 115 So citizens must be actual or potential rulers of the state. Of states which serve the common interest, the rule of one is a monarchy, the rule of the few is an aristocracy, and the rule of many is called by the generic name, a constitution. All of these forms of government have corresponding perversions in which one, few, or many rule in their own interests. These perversions are tyranny, oligarchy, and democracy.

's first responsibility is to question authority.

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. -Benjamin Franklin

is the name of the members of the body-politic when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, while they are called 'subjects' when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.

The members of a body-politic call it 'the state' when it is passive, 'the sovereign' when it is active, and a 'power' when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title 'people,' and they refer to one another individually as 'citizens' when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as 'subjects' when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

is a person who only wants better highways, better parks, better schools, and more service from government, with lower taxes.

is one who continues to vote for new schools even after his children have grown up.

A good citizen is one who continues to vote for new schools even after his children have grown up.

is, under the Fascist State, no longer a selfish individual who has the anti-social right of rebelling against any law of the Collectivity.

The citizen in the Fascist State is no longer a selfish individual who has the anti-social right of rebelling against any law of the Collectivity.

is a free and secure citizen because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.

He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it. At the same time he is also a free and secure citizen of heaven because he is also attached to a similar heavenly chain. If he wants to go to earth, the heavenly manacles will throttle him, if he wants to go to heaven, the earthly manacles will. But for all that, all possibilities are open t o him, as he is well aware, yes, he even refuses to believe the 1\.s predi- cated on a mistake going back to the time of his first enchainment.

is like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.

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