How are citizenship and democracy linked?

Question

Citizenship involve a citizen with a certain rights and duty while a democracy entails freedom. So what linked them?

Answer 1

Nothing.

Do a Google search on "PROGRESSIVISM" and "COMMON PURPOSE".

They're left wing and strongly support social engineering, political correctness and centralized government with all the bureaucracy that goes with it.

Gordon Brown and Tony Blair love the stuff.

Answer 2

There is no link. One can exist without the other - just compare with directorships.

Answer 3

Dictionary definitions

Citizenship

1. the state of being vested with the rights, privileges, and duties of a citizen.  

2. the character of an individual viewed as a member of society; behaviour in terms of the duties, obligations, and functions of a citizen.  

Democracy

Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.  

2. a state having such a form of government: The United States (sic)and Canada are democracies - or so you are led to believe.

3. a state of society characterized by formal equality of rights and privileges.  

4. political or social equality; democratic spirit.  

5. the common people of a community as distinguished from any privileged class; the common people with respect to their political power.  

Answer - nothing at all links these two concepts which is why one can have citizenship of the UK or USA without living in a democracy.  But hey so long as we believe we are living in a demoracy - why burst the bubble?