Sentence examples for of a polity from inspiring English sources

Voting reminds people that they are part of a polity.

They rejected ancient and medieval ideas of a polity as a set of orders or estates.

After all, the United Kingdom – that ramshackle old jalopy of a polity, tied together with string and myth – is wheezing towards an abyss of its own.

The surest sign of a polity that has lost confidence in itself is when its rulers cannot tolerate a debate on its affairs.

On the one hand there is the older legacy of a polity originally united by dynastic alliances, where the monarch ruled differently in his various territories, observing the prevailing local rights and customs.

An election in which both candidates are acknowledged to be lamentable and defective is as good a measure as any of a polity that's fast becoming ungovernable, and at the same time is a formula for worse things to come.

Once again, the force of the justification depends upon the assumption that what is being justified is a process of decision making for a polity.

Because the rule of law is necessary to the maintenance of such a polity — and perhaps even constitutive of it — the principal form of cooperation is abiding by the law.

For elections are the foundation of democracy: the willing act of choosing a polity that governs you – and in so doing a scared act of becoming part of that polity.

The best form of government, a polity, was, in contemporary terms, akin to an efficient, stable democracy.

The EU can be conceived of as a polity in its own right based on an authorised government, which I depict as the political organization of society, viz., the institutional arrangement of the political unit.