This is, in essence: can a democratic system set up to run a small country, and based on a citizen militia, possibly survive if that country becomes a global superpower, given all the inevitable threats to liberty that arise from a huge and permanent security force, and all the corruption of the democratic processes caused by vast imperial wealth?
The number of Iberios would go up or down based on a citizen's civic behavior.
Although the courts confiscated the film based on a citizen's complaint, the initial audience reaction was positive.
For example, in August 2011, based on a citizen complaint, Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper discovered that a paper mill on the Pearl River in Louisiana had discharged untreated and partially treated black liquor into the river, causing a massive kill of fish and other aquatic life.
The New Economics Foundation's (NEF National Accountss of Well-being project profiles European countries based on how citizens feel about their own happiness.
The small but tenacious open data movement is based on a faith that citizens can build amazing, yet unknown tools with the vast reams of data warehoused on government servers.
For two years, John Wray, the author of the well-regarded novel "Lowboy," has been spinning out a Twitter story based on a character named Citizen that he cut from the novel, a contemporary version of the serialization that Dickens and other fiction writers once enjoyed.
Based on a survey of 374 citizens, we found that usability strongly predicted citizen satisfaction with the website and intention to use the website.
"I don't think the ideas of a city can be based on what a citizen's assembly wants – it's absurd," said Francesc de Carreras, a constitutional law professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
The state today needs to be enabling and based on a partnership with the citizen, one of mutual rights and responsibilities.
