Education on the Notion of Citizenship From Modernity to the EU Times

Abstract

The creation of States was already a reality in the late 17th and the early 18th century in Europe, an administrational phenomenon having been propelled by the establishment of a parliamentary authority in Britain and the bureaucratic totalitarianism in continental Europe. The creation of States gaining the form, and the institutional legalization as is known today, gave to its prominent citizens like government and senior management officials, bureaucrats and the representatives of the merchant world, the awareness that States not only were the entities that could monopolize the exercise of power, but they were those entities that could design the totality of measures for the legal, tax, and institutional power over the people that were called its citizens. The States' need for growth and expansion imposes the needed legality behind awarding citizenship. The principle of cosmopolitanism prevails in all western democracies by imposing the same patterns for the matter.