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a politically organized body of people under a single government
African nations
students who had come to the nation's capitol
an industrialized land
the country's largest manufacturer
the state has elected a new president
How To Use body politic In A Sentence
- The argument tearing at the insides of the American body politic this week is between two different sorts of logic. Times, Sunday Times
- HAVING set forth, in the two preceding chapters, the nature of a commonwealth institutive, by the consent of many men together; I come now to speak of dominion, or a body politic by acquisition, which is commonly called a patrimonial kingdom. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
- It represented an extreme example of a theocracy - of a body politic organised essentially around religious principles.
- I reckon giving that young whippersnapper an early taste of local body politics will immunise him against parochial politics for life.
- We do have the capacity to rise up as a body politic and let our voices be heard and rescue ourselves from our five years caricature of democracy, but we do not often bestir ourselves to do so.
- Fight we must, but it is discouraging that we are at war with our own sick body politick. Stephen Herrington: A Message Washington Will Hear
- The body politic is frozen, incapable of making either bold advancements forward or retrenching, and then reverting back to simpler time. Matthew Yglesias » Olivier Blanchard on the Case for Higher Inflation
- HAVING set forth, in the two preceding chapters, the nature of a commonwealth institutive, by the consent of many men together; I come now to speak of dominion, or a body politic by acquisition, which is commonly called a patrimonial kingdom. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
- Well, I don't want people who favour strong central governments to negatively impact those of us who think of governments as arrogant, incompetent, intruders into the body politic of the nation. tom celandine High court rules in voting rights dispute
- What's puzzling is how the GOP failed to recognize and appropriately adjust to the stagnant fallaciousness of the Limbaugh-Republicanist political calculus when, prior to its colossal Palin error, Rush, for all his supposed influence on the body politic, had failed in his campaign to prevent McCain from capturing the nomination in the first place. BOOTLEG REPUBLICANISM
