It's an oversimplification to say that Europe lacks a cultural, historic and civic base.
The European Union is an attempt to build an economic and legal superstructure without a linguistic, cultural, historic and civic base.
By alienating the Hizmet movement -- which has built its civic base on an Islam-inspired commitment to tolerance, nonviolence, education, and science -- Erdogan simultaneously alienated other allies throughout the international community.
Aggressively referencing London's mayor, Osborne called for a new civic leadership, based not on political parties but on elected mayors.
A civic group based in Madrid, Access Info, claims Spain has been far behind other EU countries in introducing legislation concerning transparency.
Speaking at the Long Island Association, a trade group and civic organization based outside New York City, Powell told the group that "I am voting for Hillary Clinton," according to the New York Times.
"I am an American citizen," Robert Park, 28, said as he crossed the frozen river separating China from North Korea on Friday, according to Jo Sung-rae, head of Pax Koreana, a conservative civic group based in Seoul.
This fundamental vision of grassroots politics, depending not on rights but on duties, not on demands but on exertions, weaves a tight civic fabric based on a relentlessly grim tragic awareness of the ineluctable inseparability of individual destinies and interests.
Paying governors is not only no guarantee of quality but, in monetising one more aspect of our social relations, strips out another means of civic commitment based on community service.
"I am coming here to deliver God's love," he said as he crossed the frozen river border, according to Jo Sung-rae, head of Pax Koreana, a conservative civic group based in Seoul.
French thinkers have been especially influential in shaping modern conceptions of citizenship – notably the revolution's concept of civic patriotism (based on adhesion to common values rather than ethnicity), the notion of the general interest, and the vision of the state's enabling and enlightening power, embodied in the holistic philosophy of Jacobinism.
