Sentence examples for citizen legislators from inspiring English sources
The solution, he believes, is for status-quo politicians to cede to citizen legislators.
But in Nebraska, as in other states, voters have broader hopes: that term limits will usher in more "citizen legislators" and fewer cynical old pols.
"He believes individuals should be citizen legislators, and should return to private business," Mr. Grams's press secretary, Steve Behm, said yesterday.
But now, two years after voters shook up the Capitol, many of them seem to have cooled on the notion that a new group of citizen legislators can fix the country's ills.
In practice, being a legislator here has become a full-time job, but the state constitution still regards lawmakers as part-time citizen legislators who are allowed to have outside incomes.
For New Yorkers who voted to impose term limits on the City Council, the promise was to sweep clean a moldering institution and fill it with "citizen legislators" who would bring energy and fresh ideas from the private sector, where they would return after their eight-year allotments.
Her ideal is a "citizen legislator".
This citizen legislator thing can turn people into chiselers.
"I would be going to Washington as a citizen legislator," Mr. Johnson said.
Mr. Ewing said that, like his hero, "I want to be a citizen legislator.
