polity

IPA: pˈɑɫʌti

(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.

Examples of "polity" in Sentences

Our polity is predicated on an educated electorate.
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.