ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the relationship between citizenship and community. It describes the juristic, individualistic concept of citizen conceptualized in the state derives its meaning in a collective context, and more, that citizenship does not and cannot exist in a vacuum enveloped in the rights and privileges that are assigned it under the constitution. The development of modern western concept and its use is contained in the particular relationship between the modern nation-state and the individual referred to as civitas. To build a nation, people must all become one; which did not really occur until citizenship was universalized through the various amendments, beginning with the Fourteenth Amendment, and through the extension of civil liberties and civil rights. The universalization of citizenship, thus, breaks down all divisions between each citizen in their claims to governance. A very important observation is that community as participation is a relationship that is overlooked when measuring participation.
