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citizenship

Status as a member of a state. In most countries citizenship may be acquired either by birth or by naturalization. The status confers rights such as voting and the protection of the law and also imposes responsibilities such as military service, in some countries.



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Recently, she received the Honourary Citizen Award of Los Angeles for her contribution as a foreigner.
With respect to Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, who represented the Pope at the ceremonies on January 28 and who recently retired as Archbishop of Paris, his parents were Polish-Jews from the town of Bedzin in south-western Poland of which he is an honourary citizen, the following story might be of interest.
SIR Edmund Hillary, who conquered Mount Everest in 1953, has been made an honourary citizen of Tralee.
 
 
 
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