Spartanburg County Council has approved the creation of a citizens review committee to examine law enforcement concerns in the county. At their March 16 meeting, council members gave the go-ahead for ... SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C.

Understanding the Context

(WSPA) — A proposal to create a citizen review board in Spartanburg County is moving forward but has drawn pushback from Sheriff Bill Rhyne, underscoring a divide over law ... A citizen of the United States is a legal resident who has been processed by the government as being a member of the United States. A denizen of the United States is simply someone that lives there. He is citizen of the United States of America and currently resides in Switzerland.

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US District Judge John Dowdell (Northern District of Oklahoma, 2017): Farley attached a sworn affidavit to the Notice of Removal, wherein he stated that he is “citizen and resident” and is “domiciled in Mobile, Alabama.” Here is the Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms (1942) entry for the three words (plus citizen): Inhabitant, denizen, resident, citizen are here compared as meaning one whose home or dwelling place is in a definite location. Of these terms inhabitant applies regularly in nonfigurative use to animals as well as persons, and only denizen applies also to plants and sometimes even to words ...