ABSTRACT
The normative theory of the role of citizenship includes three components. First, it tells us what contribution citizens have a right to make to the political decision-making process. Second, it tells us what distinctive activities are important to the exercise of this right. Third, it tells us what standards on those distinctive activities citizens ought to be able to satisfy. These three elements define both the rights and duties of citizenship. There are two components to the choice of overall aims model of citizenship. First, citizenship in a just democratic order entails a standpoint on the whole of the society. Second, the choice of aims model of citizenship is the view that the citizens choose the ultimate ends that the society is to pursue. The process of choosing aims includes two kinds of activities. Deliberative activities are regulated by the principle of qualitative equality whereas pressure activities are regulated by the principle of quantitative equality.
