And our civic duty also entails going after violators of election laws.

"The second is to provide the sort of support that might encourage a greater number of people from a wider diversity of backgrounds to take on this important but unpaid civic duty."

The January 2008 column started magisterially: 'Civic duty in our time, I submit, consists mainly of three tasks.

He details arguments for the legalization of the sale of organs, the case of Iran, and objections to the sale of organs in terms of discrimination against the poor, the commodification of a good based on its financial market value, and unsafe outcomes; the effects of offering financial incentives to encourage civic sacrifice; how donors perceive their altruistic sacrifice; organ donation as civic duty through paired exchanges, donor chains, national policies to give preference to those who opt into an organ donor network, incentives that provide compensation short of direct payment, and spaces that acknowledge the sacrifices of donors; and how to begin to relieve the organ shortage crisis in the US.

"Planning and zoning is a perfect fit with my real estate career, and this is just the first step in doing my civic duty and giving back."

The city council has a civic duty of responsibility to all of its residents.

"And, I ask educators to work from the broader definition of civic duty that I have described.

His professional accomplishment and community involvement have supported standards of legal excellence and civic duty that have fostered the firm's growth.

The Church of Scotland said it was important for members to play their part in the democratic process while the Catholic Church said voting is both a "civic duty and a Christian moral obligation".

When her citizenship changed to Egypt many years back, she assured she carried over her civic duty prowess to the new homeland.

He said that that instead of appreciating his sister's "civic duty" for agreeing to act as a witness for the Crown, she has been maligned as speculations about her drug use continued.

(1) Invoking the Founders, he implored graduates to embrace the "quintessentially American value[s] of optimism; altruism; empathy; tolerance; a sense of community; a sense of service--and to reject a "society that celebrates individual ambition above all else." It is a "sense of civic duty," according to Obama, the notion that "we are bound to one another," that is at the heart of America.

"Being in Abu Dhabi made me think more critically about the idea of citizenship and civic duty," said Wang, 20, who grew up in the state of Pennsylvania.

Women are told "to calm down, dear" and the underprivileged are told to do their civic duty and take a share of the economic pain.