polity

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The form or constitution of the civil government of a nation or state; the framework or organization by which the various departments of government are combined into a systematic whole.

Hence: The form or constitution by which any institution is organized; the recognized principles which lie at the foundation of any human institution.

Policy; art; management.

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To his credit, Obama didn't just come to Washington to be someone. Like Reagan, he came to Washington to do something -- to introduce a powerful social democratic stream into America's deeply and historically individualist polity. Charles Krauthammer

Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are only some of its members. Mark Kingwell

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature. Ezra Stiles

No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul. Alexander Cockburn

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India. Manmohan Singh

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. Ezra Stiles

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