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Empirical Theories, on their part, explains how citizens came about having those rights and duties associated with citizenship. Empirical theories explore the social, economic, and political processes that have fashioned the emergence of citizenship in different times and places. They also explore the different ways through which different groups of people have been able to access such citizenship. As such, the objectives of empirical theories are to understand how and why citizenship came about as well as to expound the forms of citizenship.