Noun
The science of civil government.
Source: Webster's dictionaryTax Law is like the world's biggest chess game with all sorts of weird conundrums about ethics and civics and consent of the governed built in. For me, it's a bit like math. I have no talent for it but find it still erotically interesting. David Foster Wallace
I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class. Roger Ebert
Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the study of power, practical political power. And you must start that process at an age level when kids' brains are still open and malleable. Richard Dreyfuss
The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home. Charles Evans Hughes
I simply never unlearned junior civics. I still believe in it. Kurt Vonnegut
I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government. Olivia De Havilland