The development of citizenship has been the possession of the formal status of membership of a political legal entity and having, more or less, sort of rights and obligations within it. To fully grasp the development of citizenship concept, we are going to look on the setting/ context during those times, their understanding and practice of citizenship and impact on public administration. The development of understanding of citizenship goes back to the classical times around broad understanding of it stemming from Greek and Roman, respectively, and later evolved into what came to be turned the republican and liberal account of citizenship. Followed by the Renaissance and Enlightenment Period, Next is the turn to the ways the two were brought together by French and the American Revolution. And then finally, we are going to look on the present development concept of citizenship. …show more content…
In Athens, there are certain characteristics in order for you to be considered as citizens, namely, male and age 20 or over. The participation of the inhabitants in the process of the law is also observed. They observed multiple citizenship (city-based) and the concept of equality does not exist. For the Greeks, the concept of citizenship means a civic life of being ruled and to rule. The decision to determine if someone was worthy of citizenship was based on wealth, political participation, and their heritage. On the other hand, during the Roman Period, expansion shouts. They are known to be the ‘age of conquest’, and they demanded loyalty to both local community and to the Roman Empire. They introduced second class citizenship, civic republicanism, and the concept of citizenship was expanded to include the entire