Citizenship is membership in the political community of a sovereign state, carrying a bundle of legal rights and obligations owed between the individual and the state, along with an expectation of allegiance. Citizenship is often used interchangeably with nationality in everyday English, but international law treats the two as conceptually distinct dimensions of collective membership, with nationality describing a person's international legal bond to a state and citizenship describing full membership in its political community. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Citizenship is a membership in the political community of and allegiance to a sovereign state.
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