Fundamentals of Citizenship: Beginnings

In order to understand Citizenship, one must first understand its parts, those being the distinct practical and theoretical pieces of its whole. Those pieces can be delineated into three separate (yet intertwined) parts; the Human Person, the Human Relationship, and the Human Community. By understanding the Human Person, we first understand the building block of our communal life: the individual. By understanding the Human Relationship, we then understand the mortar that binds those blocks together: relationships between individuals. By understanding the Human Community, we then understand the structures formed by the binding of those blocks together: our communities.

It is also useful to define here the scope of these constituent parts of Citizenship in order to proceed with clarity and intellectual discipline from the beginning of the discourse. The Human Person is to be understood as the individual members of our species, Homo Sapiens Sapiens. The Human Relationship is to be understood as any and all ways that two or more individual members of our species interact, regardless of distance, time, or any other constraint. The Human Community is to be understood as any and all instances where two or more Human Persons engage in a Human Relationship such that it creates a bond that links those Human Persons together, regardless of time, distance or any other restraint.