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a person is born
with a signature
What is a "citizenship" ?
When a person is born, the parents usually register the baby in the country.
Is not this a violation of a basic right, freedom of association?
Is not this a violation of a basic right, freedom of association?
In the example above, the guardians of the baby made a decision for that person.
The baby, when older, is free to disassociate from that country and join another one, or do as they please.
So, in other words that forced "association" without consent became null, void.
In other words, nobody can force you to do anything without your consent, right?
It's not forced.
The parents are the legal guardians of the child, so for all intents and purposes it is the same as if the child decided to become a citizen themselves.
The parents are the legal guardians of the child
Why do you keep saying "legal" and not "natural" ?
What is the meaning of the word "parent" ?
Legal guardian is a more broad term that includes natural guardian:
A minor child's parents are the child's natural guardians
What is the meaning of the word "parent" ?
A parent in this case refers to either the progenitor of a child or the adoptive parent.
Here is the meaning of the word parent: #527852
Note: It should be noted that a named living person has not claimed guardianship and therefore responsibility over the child.
Sure, if a person in the middle of the wilderness has a kid, then yeah, like any other animal, there's no responsibility over the child.
But in a particular society, there are rules, and they protect the kid for example so that the parents have responsibilities over the child if it is born in that country.
By using the word parent you are implicitly assuming a society. Language is not created in a vacuum. It needs a society.
"a membership and allegiance to a sovereign state"
Can a state be sovereign? Who is this "State" ?
Can a state be sovereign?
Yes. A sovereign state is a state that has authority over a territory.
Who is this "State" ?
There are hundreds of different states currently in the world, each one of them with different rules. For example, in some of them you don't get citizenship by simply being born there, you need to have extra requirements, like your parents being permanent residents or citizens themselves first.
a state that has authority over a territory.
And WHO gives that authority to a state?
What does it means the word "authority" ?
Usually, yes, but it's opt-in.
When a person is born, the parents usually register the baby in the country.
That makes the new person participate in a society as a citizen of that country. The parents have to sign a legal document to make it so.
Of course it was not the decision of the baby in this case, and the baby can, at some point in the future, if they decide to, remove their own citizenship.
Unless you were born in Argentina, which is the only country that doesn't allow the removal of their citizenship.