Or should we think more in terms of a divided citizenry, with pro- and anti-Alexander factions getting the upper hand by turns?
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San Antonio is nearly 100 miles away - a trip to the shops by Texas standards - but culturally it feels further, with two-thirds of the citizenry of Hispanic origin.
Police constables are not just crime-fighters, they are social psychologists - looking for ways to calm an anxious citizenry.
"During my management, there have been many soldiers, many marines -- especially federal police -- who have lost their lives fighting to liberate the citizenry from crime, " Calderon said Friday.
So go the turf battles among rival grass-roots organizations--communities mobilizing against commercial interests, which, in turn, try to co-opt the citizenry.
Across the country state government officials and public health experts are looking for new ways to improve the health and well being of their citizenry--and improve their rankings in the process.
Thus, those states claiming that they are cutting fat and waste are actually setting the stage for the impoverishment of their citizenry and a long-run decline in the revenues available to pull themselves back out of this hole.
But at the same time not many people in the general internet citizenry apply much effort to self-protection.
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This vast and diverse citizenry will not always agree on every issue -- nor should we.
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And that's what this alliance, that's what this effort is all about -- making sure that none of us think that it's somebody else's job, but rather we all accept our role to play in making sure that we have the best-educated citizenry in the world.
Political brinksmanship has become more important, more right now than the economic well-being of the citizenry, many of which are struggling to make ends meet.
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It would mean that the government itself--the permanent institutions of the state, not just the administration currently in office--has turned against the citizenry and the Constitution.
NGOs now lobby for convicts' rights, and lawyers argue that the issue is not between death-row convicts and the rest of the citizenry but of overweening state power over all.
When per-capita income reaches some threshold, the citizenry tire of opaque air and sleazy waters, various agencies and permanent bureaucracies sprout, and, as long as times are good, regulation is good.
Simultaneously, an explosion of technology, social media and e-commerce has created a more informed and empowered citizenry.
On January 1 Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan entered a customs union--one can imagine the bliss dividend for their collective citizenry.
What would be the everyday reality in America if the anti-gun left ever succeeds with its goal of disarming the American citizenry?
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He spoke of his pride in the first-responders and law enforcement officials as well as the toughness of its citizenry.
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In Europe the citizenry do not have the privilege of a 1st Amendment, and Wilders recently triumphed in a "hate-speech" trial brought against him by Muslim Brotherhood-influenced elements who sought to intimidate him into shutting up.
What is in question is the viability of an Islamic republic -- or for that matter, a Jewish state, a Christian empire, a Hindu fundamentalist government -- or any state or movement that is defined not by the democratic apparatus of citizenry, but by exclusionary membership in a world religion.
Friends, we are running through a playbook of national decline laid out by thinkers ranging from Gibbon to Montesquieu (use of mercenaries to fight our wars and clean our toilets, imperial overreach, an intellectually apathetic citizenry, onerous taxes, tax evasion, failure to protect borders, and failure to inculcate newcomers in the time-honored values of the nation).
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