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Citizens' Party (Denmark)

Borgernes Parti (Citizens' Party, letter H) is a Danish nationalist, anti-establishment party founded by Lars Boje Mathiesen after his 2023 expulsion from the New Right; approved January 2025, it won 2.1% and 4 seats at the 24 March 2026 election.

Citizenship

Citizenship: membership in a political community carrying rights and duties; also called nationality. Three dimensions (legal, political, identity); republican and liberal models; jus soli, jus sanguinis, dual citizenship, statelessness.

Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019

Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA), India's amendment to the Citizenship Act, 1955 creating a citizenship pathway for Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, and Christian migrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan who entered India before 31 December 2014; rules notified March 2024, under Supreme Court challenge.

Citizenship Amendment Act protests

Nationwide Indian protest movement, December 2019 to March 2020, against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019, which first made religion a citizenship criterion; centered on Shaheen Bagh sit-in, with deaths, detentions and 2024 implementation.

Citizenship and immigration for adopted children in Canada

A child adopted abroad by a Canadian parent can become Canadian through a direct citizenship grant or through sponsorship for permanent residence followed by naturalization, with different eligibility rules.

Citizenship Clause

Citizenship Clause, first sentence of Fourteenth Amendment Section 1, source of U.S. birthright citizenship; construed in Wong Kim Ark (1898) and upheld against Executive Order 14160 in Trump v. Barbara (2026).

Citizenship in a Republic

Citizenship in a Republic, also called the Man in the Arena speech: Theodore Roosevelt's April 23, 1910 Sorbonne address, 8,838 words in 39 paragraphs, arguing a republic rests on the average citizen's character.

Citizenship of the United States

Citizenship of the United States, or U.S. nationality, is held at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment's jus soli rule (Wong Kim Ark, 1898) or acquired by naturalization; in 2026 the Supreme Court's Trump v. Barbara ruling struck down an executive order restricting it.

Citrus Bowl

Citrus Bowl: annual Orlando college football bowl at Camping World Stadium, begun as the Tangerine Bowl in 1947; seventh-oldest bowl, hosting top Big Ten vs SEC teams since 1993.

Citryll

Citryll is a Dutch clinical-stage biotechnology company based in Oss, the Netherlands, spun out of ModiQuest, developing CIT-013, an antibody targeting neutrophil extracellular traps for immune-mediated inflammatory diseases.

Citta Hatthirohaputta

Citta Hatthirohaputta (चित्तहत्थिरोहपुत्त) was a senior monk of the Buddha's time, an elephant trainer's son known from AN 6.60, where he returned to lay life, re-ordained, and attained arahantship.

CITV

CITV, originally Children's ITV, was ITV's British children's TV brand: a 1983 afternoon block, a Freeview channel from 11 March 2006, closed 1 September 2023, replaced by ITVX Kids, brand ended April 2026.

City Beautiful movement

City Beautiful movement: American urban-planning reform movement, 1890s–1920s, launched by Burnham's 1893 White City; Beaux-Arts monuments, boulevards, and parks; peak in the 1909 Plan of Chicago.

city caffie

city caffie (ستي كافي) is a casino in Babil Governorate, Iraq, near Hillah, at 32.48092° N, 44.42687° E; OpenStreetMap node 6652875888, tagged amenity=casino, near Next level Babil arcade.

City College of New York

City College of New York (CCNY), founded 1847 as the Free Academy by Townsend Harris, is the founding flagship public college of CUNY in Harlem, known for free merit-based education, ten Nobel laureate alumni, and top-ranked social mobility.

City commission government

City commission government, or the Galveston Plan, is a US municipal form devised in Galveston, Texas, in 1901 in which elected at-large commissioners legislate collectively and each heads a city department; it peaked around 500 cities in 1918 and now survives in under 1% of cities.

City Council of Madrid

Ayuntamiento de Madrid: the city council of Madrid, Spain. Governing body with a 57-member Pleno (2023-2027), executive Junta de Gobierno meeting weekly at Palacio de Cibeles, 21 districts, and 15 permanent Áreas de Acción.

City museum and art gallery herbarium

City museum and art gallery herbarium: pressed plant specimen collections held by municipal museums, e.g., Worcester (WOS), Plymouth (PLH), Birmingham, Manchester (MANCH), registered in Index Herbariorum with official herbarium codes.

City of Dream Casino

City of Dreams (新濠天地) is Melco Resorts' flagship integrated casino resort in Cotai, Macau, opened June 1, 2009, with about 430 gaming tables, the Zaha Hadid-designed Morpheus hotel, and the House of Dancing Water show.

City of Grants Pass v. Johnson

City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, also known as Grants Pass v. Johnson, is a 2024 US Supreme Court ruling that enforcing public-camping bans is not cruel and unusual punishment.

City of Greater New York

City of Greater New York, also called Greater New York, the consolidated five-borough City of New York formed January 1, 1898, uniting Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island under the 1897 Greater New York Charter.

City of license

City of license (community of license): the US city or town to which the FCC licenses a broadcast station, anchoring its service obligation, legal station ID, and public file requirements.

City of London Corporation

City of London Corporation, the municipal governing body of the Square Mile, run by the non-party Court of Common Council and Court of Aldermen across 25 wards, with an annually elected Lord Mayor and a business vote.

City of London Police

City of London Police: territorial force for the Square Mile, established 1839, governed by the City of London Corporation rather than a PCC, and the UK National Lead Force for fraud hosting Report Fraud.

City of Oxford High School for Boys

City of Oxford High School for Boys: Oxford grammar school founded 1881 by T. H. Green, housed in a T. G. Jackson building on George Street; closed 1966, merging into Oxford School, now Oxford Spires Academy.

City Regulation of 1870 and 1892

The City Regulation of 1870 and 1892 (Городовое положение 1870 и 1892 годов) comprises two Russian Empire statutes defining urban self-government, the 1892 one sharply narrowing the electorate.

City St George's, University of London

City St George's, University of London: a multi-faculty London university formed on 1 August 2024 by merging City, University of London and St George's, University of London, with campuses in Clerkenwell, Moorgate and Tooting and over 20,000 students.

City University of New York

The City University of New York (CUNY) is the public university system of New York City, established in 1961, with 26 colleges serving about 247,000 students.

City upon a Hill

City upon a Hill is a metaphor from Matthew 5:14 that John Winthrop used in his 1630 sermon, later made famous by Kennedy and Reagan as a slogan of American exceptionalism.

City, Town and Village System

The City, Town and Village System (市制町村制) was a Japanese law of 1888 that made cities, towns, and villages legal persons with elected assemblies, enforced from 1889.