In May 2005 the Canadian province of British Columbia had a referendum on abolishing single-member district plurality in favour of multi-member districts with the Single Transferable Vote system after the Citizens ' Assembly on Electoral Reform made a recommendation for the reform.

Citizens had to be provided with the necessary knowledge to exercise their freedom and understand the rights and laws that guaranteed their enjoyment.

MBP also had control over 41, 000 soldiers of the Internal Security Corps, 57, 500 officers of the Citizens ' Militia, 32, 000 officers of Border Troops and 10, 000 Prison Guard and also 125, 000 members of the Volunteer Reserve Citizen Militia.

All other lawful US Citizens disenfranchised ( prior voting rights actively removed by State or Federal Government ) have had their Voting Rights restored, except for Washington, DC Citizens.

All previous gloved world champs had been white U. S. Citizens ( except for Robert Fitzsimmons, of the United Kingdom ), who only defended their titles against other white opponents.

It is the headquarters of Lon Mabon, whose Oregon Citizens Alliance has worked to pass a number of anti-homosexual initiatives, and where Bill Sizemore, who has championed various anti-government initiatives for most of the 1990s, had his base before he moved to Klamath Falls.

Citizens from Westford also had some notable involvement in the Revolutionary War.

The factory still stands today, at 815 Chestnut Street, but had been converted into the Senior Citizens Center.

Palmerton once had a movie theater called the, " Palm Theater ," which now is the location of the highrise for Senior Citizens that sets on 250 Delaware Avenue.

** Citizens of other poleis who chose to reside elsewhere ( the metics, μέτοικοι, métoikoi, literally " transdwellers "): though free-born and possessing full rights in their place of origin, had full legal rights but no political rights in their place of residence.

Citizens also felt that multi-family apartments and dwellings had proliferated out of control in Burien and other unincorporated areas of King County, and that they had no local voice in government, other than the King County Council, that would hear their concerns.

To avoid un-American connotations that became associated with the name after World War I, the Socialist Party of Star City in 1918 renamed itself the Independent Citizens ' party and won back local government, partly due to its opposition to the regressive " capitation tax " the Citizens ' Party had imposed.

After the Supreme Court ruling, the New Orleans Comité des Citoyens ( Committee of Citizens ), which had brought the suit and arranged for Homer Plessy's arrest in order to challenge Louisiana's segregation law, replied, “ We, as freemen, still believe that we were right and our cause is sacred .”

Corps areas had the added responsibility for planning and implementing mobilization plans for all Regular Army, National Guard, and Organized Reserve mobile units in their respective geographic areas ; the development and administration of hundreds of new Organized Reserve and Reserve Officers Training Corps ( ROTC ) units ; and managing the personnel records for thousands of Reserve officers, enlisted personnel, ROTC cadets, and Citizens Military Training Camp ( CMTC ) candidates.

Disagreeing with Fair Voting BC's decision to devote the movement's energies to backing the new BC Liberal government's plan to move forward with the Citizens ' Assembly process it had developed in 1997, Carr founded a rival electoral reform organization called Free Your Vote to utilize the province's citizen initiative legislation ( which technically allows citizens to force referendums on legislation if they gather a sufficient number of signatures ).

The revolution was that Citizens could participate and vote in the elections without regard to which Estate they had hitherto belonged ; instead there were new requirements on income or wealth, i. e. census suffrage.

Citizens were male, had performed military service, and were intimately and directly linked to the state.

On October 27, Oates sang the National Anthem before Game 5 of the 2008 World Series at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia ( Hall had taken sick, and the game was called on account of rain about 2 / 3 through, but resumed on October 29, and the Phillies won, claiming their first World Series Championship in 28 years ).

This suggestion was in turn criticised by the Government, as Sir Edmund had backed Labour in 1975 as part of the " Citizens for Rowling " campaign.

Progressives from the Berkeley Citizens ' Action ( BCA ) slate who replaced them had voiced strong support for a domestic partner policy.

Citizens of 15 area cities had voted to levy a 1 % sales tax to join the system by the time it began transit services in 1984 ( though formal acquisition of the Dallas Transit System wouldn't be complete until 1988 ).

Citizens Information Service Centers ( CISC ) have been established in Ulaanbataar and six Aimags that are equipped to allow nomadic rural populations to receive internet access.

Since 2004, the team's home has been Citizens Bank Park in the South Philadelphia section of the city.

Citizens should then be able to make a complaint to the appropriate authority if they believe they have been discriminated against because of their genotype.

Since the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission in 2010, upholding the rights of corporations to make political expenditures under the First Amendment, there have been several calls for a US Constitutional amendment to abolish Corporate Personhood.

Since the Citizens United decision, the pattern of corporate funding has increased, as the disclosure requirements have effectively been circumvented.

In the United Kingdom it has since been revived at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, in 1986, and at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 2006.

This cliché has been parodied in the film Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol, where Officer Zed is instructing new recruits how to " properly " consume their doughnut with coffee.

Jonathan Kent, Lana Lang, and Pete Ross are among the Smallville Citizens that have been transformed into Doomsday-like creatures.

This has been the subject of much controversy from Schaumburg's Citizens and has been believed to be part of the high tax problem.

The following have been declared Honorary Citizens of Ribe: ( By year )

A similar scheme under the same name, European Citizens ' Initiative ( ECI ), has been put forward in the now ratified European Lisbon Treaty ( which entered into force on 1 December 2009 ), enabling a limited indirect initiative right.

Since 1945, the well-known Citizens Theatre has been based in the area at the former Royal Princess's Theatre, an historic Victorian building.

The Upright Citizens Brigade have also been a featured performance in the Comedy Tent at the annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, TN for the past three years.

Since the late 1990s, especially following September 11, 2001, there have been a number of initiatives to increase the transparency of offshore banking, although critics such as the Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens ( ATTAC ) non-governmental organization ( NGO ) maintain that they have been insufficient.

Isakson has been given an " A " rating by the National Rifle Association, the " Hero of the Taxpayer " award by Citizens Against Government Waste, and a " 92 " rating on a scale of 100 by the Christian Coalition of America ( incidentally, the same score Mac Collins received ).

At this time, the existing infantry battalions of the Citizens Force were redesignated to perpetuate the numerical designations of the AIF, and although an attempt was made to allocate these designations based on regional considerations, ultimately this was not always possible and ultimately when the 3rd Division was re-established, only two of its component battalions — the 37th and 39th Battalions — had previously been assigned to the division.

: Citizens of Athens, I do not doubt that you are all pretty well aware that this trial has been the center of keen partisanship and active canvassing, for you saw the people who were accosting and annoying you just now at the casting of lots. 1 But I have to make a request which ought to be granted without asking, that you will all give less weight to private entreaty or personal influence than to the spirit of justice and to the oath which you severally swore when you entered that box.

The party had also been allied with federalist and republican political platform Citizens for Change ( Ciutadans pel Canvi ) until the 2010 election.

Bartlett has been recognized for his leadership skills by the National Association of Manufacturers, National Federation of Independent Business ; Ebony, Essence and Jet Magazines ; Texas Association for Retarded Citizens ; Anti-Defamation League ; National Council of La Raza ; American Electronics Association ; Watchdogs of the Treasury ; and Best Dad by the NF Foundation.

The Goethe University Frankfurt ( full German name: Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main ) is a university which was founded in 1914 as a Citizens ' University, which means that, while it was a State university of Prussia, it had been founded and financed by the wealthy and active liberal citizenry of Frankfurt am Main, a unique feature in German university history.