The phrase "able citizen" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a citizen who is capable, competent, or fit to participate in civic duties or responsibilities.
Example: "An able citizen should actively engage in community service and contribute to the betterment of society."
Alternatives: "capable citizen" or "competent citizen".
Not unless your first book is not only accepted for publication, but also instantly taken up as a soul-clattering work of genius that should be sold to every sane and able citizen.
Disenfranchisement performs this work by producing both the figure of the "dangerous felon" as an excluded, abnormalized, racialized, and dis-abled criminal, and the figure of the "innocent citizen" as a normalized, white, male, able citizen.
Suicide was decriminalized in Ireland in 1993, and Ms. Fleming argued that she should have the same right as any able-bodied citizen to take her own life.
Toward this end, the entire population has been mobilized, with virtually every able-bodied citizen expected to cut cane or fill in at work for those who do.
In the USSR work is a duty and a matter of honor for every able-bodied citizen, in accordance with the principle: "He who does not work, neither shall he eat".
This resolution stipulated that every able-bodied citizen between the ages of 11 and 60 should plant three to five trees per year or do the equivalent amount of work in seedling, cultivation, tree tending or other services.
Sierra Leone was devastated by a decade-long civil war that ended in 2002 and many of its most able citizens still live abroad.
As long as the (official) end is to forge future able citizens of all children, immigrants, and natives, there is no contradiction between mandatory civic integration and multiculturalism.
Anywhere there is a group of committed and able citizens I believe they can have a real impact on city elections.
This would create space for those who, by choice or fate, do not belong to the Global Village, yet are perfectly able citizens craving for a role at a local level.
Nor does it help the problems of road safety - we know that 50% of fatal accidents take place in cities - nor those relating to the production of consumers, less able citizens, whose mobility is dependent on public transport.
