МАТЕРИАЛИ ЗА XX МЕЖДУНАРОДНА НАУЧНА ПРАКТИЧНА КОНФЕРЕНЦИЯ ★ 17 - 25 март, 2023
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of sovereign state power, and secondly, the provision of a whole range of rights and
obligations, including the most important political ones” [7].
The most important legal consequence arising from the fact of possession of
citizenship is the constitutional possibility of citizens' participation in the exercise of
state power. A citizen has the right to influence its implementation, as well as to take a
direct part (to elect and be elected to all authorities of this state).
The content of citizenship in the constitutional and legal sense is “a set of mutual
rights and obligations of subjects of bilateral communication: a citizen and a state. Each
person has rights and obligations in relation to another. Each specific right of a citizen
is accompanied by the obligation of the state to guarantee its implementation, and each
specific duty of a citizen is accompanied by a specific right of the state to demand its
implementation from the latter” [7].
The legal relationship of citizenship in the constitutional legal sense is a set of
mutual rights and obligations of the subjects of this two-way relationship: the citizen
and the state. Each specific right of a citizen corresponds to the duty of the state to
guarantee its implementation, and each specific duty of a citizen corresponds to the
specific right of the state to demand its execution by the latter.
Such a connection is not limited to the spatial boundaries of the state and is
indefinite, i.e. stable in space and time.
The stability of citizenship over time is manifested in the fact that citizenship is
continuous. Continuity is expressed in the preservation of citizenship from the moment
of birth, acquisition of citizenship and until the withdrawal from citizenship or its loss,
in accordance with the legislation of a particular state. Thus, citizenship is a
“continuing legal state” [8].
The stability of citizenship in space is expressed in the fact that a citizen, leaving
the borders of his state, regardless of the term, continues to be under the jurisdiction of
the country of citizenship. At the same time, some rights and obligations that are part
of the content of citizenship cease to be valid for the duration of the stay abroad, but
the person does not lose them. “The imposition by the host country of this person of
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