Citizenship, is perhaps the most noble activity that exemplifies man as a political animal or, in other words, "political activity" within a self-sufficient, developed state. ... The gift of speech enabling men to indicate "what is just and what is unjust" coupled with the inclination towards dialogue of such a nature is, perhaps the basis of the state. ... Aristotle informs us that the association within the state "is the end of those others whatever is the end- product that is what we call its nature" and that "It is clear then that the state is both natural and prior to the individual" ...

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