The phrase "civic imperative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a moral or ethical obligation related to citizenship and community involvement.
Example: "Participating in local elections is a civic imperative that every citizen should embrace."
Alternatives: "civic duty" or "social responsibility".
His duty, however, was to spend every moment serving his country in exactly the way he had been told.That civic imperative was what mattered, he said later; nothing personal or individual.
The promise inherent to socialism, channeled by titanic figures like Jean Jaurès, was to invest politics with a moral and civic imperative: to create a society where "every citizen has the time and liberty to devote themselves to the commonweal".
In defining a new local leadership, I would argue it has two strands: economic, and civic, national imperatives at a local level.
Its adherents took advantage of new religious liberty laws to keep their children out of state schools and to demand that civic society bow to religious imperatives.
— — — — - *By that I mean that I vote primarily as a civic sacrament — an exercise in the categorical imperative, not as an exercise of political power.
New York's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has been juggling the imperatives of free speech and civic peace while remaining wary of police excesses.
I will leave it to others to argue whether having all kinds of unaccountable political spending is good for the civic common or whether the pure market imperatives of private equity capitalism are good for the broader economy.
More recently, former Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, "It is imperative if we are going to survive as a nation that our schools teach civics.
By focusing on economic imperatives, schools risk losing sight of their roles in nurturing social solidarity, passing on cultural heritage and promoting civic engagement.
