0 a person who is a member of a particular country and who has rights because of being born there or because of being given rights, or a person who lives in a particular town or city: --
He reassured people that law-abiding citizens (= people who do not break the law) would have nothing to fear from the enquiries.
Old people are just treated like second-class citizens (= unimportant people).
The citizens of Moscow woke up this morning to find they had a new government.
The interests of British citizens living abroad are protected by the British Embassy.
1 a person who was born in a particular country and has certain rights or has been given certain rights because of having lived there: --
2 a person who is a member of a state or country, and has legal rights there: --
While direct democracy might lead to lower political efficacy of minorities, it might have a positive general impact on citizen attitudes towards government.
Thus, campaigns can only marginally move citizens' weight of economic attitudes in their voting decision.
This is a recipe for bribery, since private citizens now have an interest in breaking the law.
The same holds for safety because all citizens in a safe country will benefit from this good.
For these reasons alone, child delinquents constitute a disproportionate threat to the safety and property of citizens across the nation.
While clearly reaching thousands of citizens, they are still quite limited.
Perhaps this is because higher taxes are often used to fund a higher level of desirable government services, leaving citizens equally well or better off.
In classical political economy, voluntary arrangements to fix prices and restrict competition were part of a citizen's broader right to contract.