Whether this consumer power can stretch into citizen power is an open question.
American citizens are waking up to how vastly the world has changed, how potentially vast is citizen power, and how we can transform the world to one of prosperity and peace.
The BBC's environment analyst Roger Harrabin says the vote is something of a victory for citizen power, following organised lobbying of MEPs by ordinary people, as well as by high-profile celebrity chefs and environmentalists.
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Without that, the individual citizen does not have the power to hold public bodies to account.
How have we got ourselves into the position where there is such a marked imbalance of power between the citizen and the state?
And at the heart of our programme for government will be our intention to change fundamentally the balance of power between the citizen and the state so that ultimately it's people in control of their government, not the other way round.
The most fearsome and coercive arm of the administrative state embarked on a systematic effort to suppress citizen dissent against the party in power.
Nearly 500 leaders from business, foundations, universities and politics are meeting to "celebrate the power and potential of citizen service" and lay out a plan to address "America's greatest social challenges through expanded opportunities for volunteer and national service, " according to the organizers' Web site.
"He has more power than any other private citizen in the United States, " said Wolff.
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Second, setting out the rights that people can expect but also the responsibilities that come with those rights as a British citizen is a fundamental step in balancing power between Government, Parliament and the people.
But the law is the military now has the power to indefinitely detain an American citizen if they suspect them of terrorism.
It was in the mid 1980s, at the peak of his power, that Marinho was sometimes dubbed the Citizen Kane of Brazil.
The Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, writes in the Observer today that Britain needs a written constitution - a document that formally limits the power of politicians and enshrines the supremacy of the citizen.
Tesla would later become an American citizen and start businesses commercializing his patents in the areas of electrical power systems and AC power.
It would be ironic indeed if the Internet revolution, celebrated now as a catalyst for reinvigorated citizen participation, were likewise confounded: if websites like Scorecard merely ended up enhancing the power of professional consultants and their opinion polls.
The power to settle old scores, lobby or build an idealized democratic media composed of citizen journalists obscured the underlying damage created by relentless acceleration.
Martin Weldon, from Mitcham and Morden, near the home of the Tooting Popular Front so immortalised by Citizen Smith, stressed that foundation hospitals would empower local residents, give local choice and decisions, and therefore give power back to the people.
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