A citizen is a person, either collectively or individually, who has the nationality of an independent state. By establishing the nationality of a particular country one has the powers and duties set forth in that country's constitution (but a citizen can commit a crime and be deprived of certain powers and still be a citizen of that country). Citizen is in fact synonymous with national or countryman. The term "people" is easily confused with citizen. The concept of "people" is complex. People in ancient times is a combination of people and people, people is a general reference to the individual human beings, can be called spirit man (see Hong Shen Yu "Irony of the original Taoism", etc.); and the people is the laborers (initially may refer exclusively to the slaves), and later referred to the officials outside of the ordinary people, also known as the people, also the poor (the ancient system of exploitation of the people may not be rich, rich also converted to become a landowner or a slave owner, rich merchants, etc.). The people in ancient times is the people manpower ordinary people that is, the common people. Since later the working people and ordinary citizens revolution as the master, in the people's government to hold public office and engaged in cultural work are regarded as a broad sense of labor, so are the people. Therefore, the people can be an individual or a group, the individual people is the people, generally is the concept of civilians. In modern society, the people are mainly found in socialist countries (some say it is a political concept), and often appear as a group concept, which is in fact the masses of the people or the masses, such as "people's democracy", "people's **** and the state". But in some contexts, public officials are not called the masses of people, such as sometimes party members, public officials, and officials are not included in the people or the masses, such as "serving the people" and "detached from the masses of people". There are other contexts that refer to the country or its individuals, in fact, is the "citizen" of the non-legal context of the common saying (only the citizen is mostly used in the context of legal affairs), such as "the Chinese people" "the American people ", "the people of Argentina", and so on. Overall, modern Chinese lacks logical criteria for defining people and citizens, and can only have clear meanings in legal and political conceptual contexts.
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