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Stateless

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Stateless  (STATELESS)


Inhabitants of a state may be subjects1, citizens1 or nationals1 of that state, who enjoy certain political rights, or they maybe aliens2 or foreigners2 who are citizens of another state, or citizens of no state at all and are called stateless3. The term "subject" used to have a servile connotation, but has tended to lose it and is frequently taken as a synonym of citizen, though occasionally a distinction is made, especially in colonial territories, between a subject and a citizen. Citizens of a state generally possess the nationality4 of that state. This term is nowadays used as a synonym for citizenship4, but in some multi-national states6 a distinction may be drawn between political nationality4 and ethnic nationality5.
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