The Washitaw Nation, the sovereign-citizenry group that Gavin Long declared himself a member of, was founded decades ago by a black Louisiana woman named Verdiacee Turner, who called herself Empress Verdiacee "Tiari" Washitaw-Turner Goston El-Bey.
It was not a coherent city with a centre, a citizenry, a group of identifiable civic bigwigs of the type to be found in Des Moines or San Francisco and a society worthy of the name.Instead, Los Angeles had cliques.
Libya post-Gaddafi will include in its citizenry individuals and groups who were once loyal to the former regime and its leader.
Mr. Santos should also address the renewed power of paramilitary or successor armed groups, protecting the citizenry not only from guerrilla groups but from all predatory criminals.
According to a unitary conception of citizenship, citizenry would be a group of people living in a well-defined territory as equal members of a political community and subject to the same political authority.
A design competition requiring a woman from history winnowed down 121 possibilities as Mr. Diehl made sure to have his customers, the citizenry, studied in focus groups on the Internet.
If the institutions of a state favor one ethnic group among its citizenry in this way, then only the members of that group will feel themselves fully a part of the life of the state.
A gun can protect you from a home invader, but not so much from a totalitarian regime that has duped its citizenry into scapegoating an ethnic group, or claiming that its enemies are the embodiment of evil.
But if the people who "own" the state in question are an ethnic sub-group of the citizenry, even if the vast majority, it constitutes a serious problem indeed, and this is precisely the situation of Israel as the Jewish state.
Many fleeing Venezuelans predict the high and rising rate of violence at home will eventually lead their country to a civil war, waged between the police, a rebellious citizenry and the many armed groups that wield power in cities across the country.
Vladimir Putin, dictator of Russia in all but name, appears content to ignore the lessons of history – namely, that you cannot oppress a group of your own citizenry forever without them eventually rising up against you.
