Noun
civic society (plural civic societies)
(UK) A voluntary body or society which aims to represent the needs of a local community.
Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood. Cokie Roberts
The greatest problem for the human race, to the solution of which Nature drives man, is the achievement of a universal civic society which administers law among men. Immanuel Kant
When two-thirds or three-quarters of the C. E. O. s in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think. . . A country is more than an economy. We're a civic society. Steve Bannon