State citizenship in adjudication

75 Abstract The aim of this work is to describe and analyze the concept of the state citizenship in general and in the Czech Republic from a theoretical and practical point of view. At the theoretical level, this work explores the concept of state citizenship and the related terms such as nationality analyzed in the first chapter that has a broader conceptual content. Nationality is used as a benchmark concept to distinguish vertical and horizontal levels of state citizenship. At the vertical level, often referred to as functional citizenship, the focus is on the relationship between the state and its citizens. By contrast, the horizontal level concentrates on ties between citizens within a state that are based on solidarity and collective sense of belonging. This leads to the particular role of state citizenship that provides an individual with a set of privileges such as legally enshrined special treatment by the state. The second chapter of this work studies the historical development of the state citizenship on the Czech territory since 1918. This chapter clearly demonstrates important institutional legacies from the first Czechoslovak Republic that were overtaken by the new regime after 1989. Related legal resources of state citizenship are examined in the next chapter that scrutinizes them as part of..