The term civil refers to those issues inherent to a certain city or to the citizens who inhabit it.
Also, the civil term It is often used to make a difference from those who respond to or belong to the military or religious field and that certainly due to their belonging to these areas that show important differences with the civil orbit they lose this name a little.
While, in law, the civil term also holds a special participation since the same It includes all those questions, relationships or private interests with respect to the people, their property or the state they present, whether single, married or divorced.
On the other hand, the existence of the civil sphere or of what in political science is called as civil society is a fundamental requirement for democracy exists and is maintained.
A civil society is the set of people who hold the category of citizens and who mostly act collectively to make decisions inherent to the public sphere of the society to which they belong, outside of government institutions and that obviously will tend to achieve of the common good, in order in this way and if necessary, to have the tools and the areas to be able to defend oneself from the strategic power that is sometimes exercised by the state and the market.
