polity
IPA: pˈɑɫʌti
noun
- (politics, religion, usually uncountable) Organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion.
- (political science, countable) A politically organized unit, especially a state.
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Examples of "polity" in Sentences
- He knows the name of this polity.
- The polity of the association is hierarchical.
- The battle marked the end of the Maratha polity.
- Our polity is predicated on an educated electorate.
- The people that live there are part of the polity ROC.
- The goal of the polity is not to put homosexuals in jail.
- The paragraph is your original interpretation of the polity data.
- It opposed primarily the polity of Portugal and that of the Netherlands.
- The origin of the present government, and system of polity, is as follows.
- An imbalance was created in the polity by the result of the 1961 congress.
- An imbalance was created in the polity by the result of the 1961 plebiscite.
- My vision of a successful modern polity is something more akin to Orange County.
- Some say its special polity comes from the huge reservoirs that collect the water in Upstate New York.
- Since Baptists are congregational in polity you never quite know what to expect from one church to another
- The very nature of our polity is based on balancing various sectional interests (Dairy = Wisconsin, California, New England and upstate N. York, etc.) against others.
- Now he is desirous to have his whole plan of government neither a democracy nor an oligarchy, but something between both, which he calls a polity, for it is to be composed of men-at-arms.
- His Luddite attitudes were and are not very consequential in most Indian discussions because the polity is more concerned today with rent-seeking than with issues arising from the impact of Machinery.
- In fact, the use Lady Liberty, as a way of expressing both political identity but also commitment to the polity, is a powerful motif thats repeated again and again across the United States in the 19th century.
- The polity is likewise that of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the chief difference being the provision for a general convention as a constitutional lawmaking body, to be called only when there is under consideration a change in polity or name.