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civil society
(redirected from Civic nation)

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civil society
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the elements such as freedom of speech, an independent judiciary, etc., that make up a democratic society


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Here was not only the constituency of a new citizenship, but also the movers and shakers needed to promote the idea of a civic nation beyond interest groups.
The story I am telling portrays both of these strands as having contributed essentially to what our civic nation has become.
Now, too, as the seniors before us took grave risks to resist the United States government in the name of a civic nation transcending "blood and soil" and even capitalism and Cold War ideology, American civil society seemed to have risen from slumber and to be walking again, remoralizing the state and the law.
 
 
 
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