Sentence examples for polity based from inspiring English sources

These, in turn, would form a genuine foundation for a new kind of polity based on a constitutional monarchy with representative assemblies.

The constitution of 1787 did bring into being a polity based on competing interests; deliberation was no longer expected to yield consensus.

They argued that the Prophet Muhammad's emphasis on consultation and consensus justified modern ideas like pluralism and a religious polity based on a popular mandate.

The most prominent of the Jalāyirids, Sheikh Uways (1356 74), finally wrested control of Azerbaijan from the Süldüz Chūpānids in 1360, creating a polity based on Arabian Iraq and Azerbaijan.

The historian William J. Cooper has stated that Davis believed in a Southern social order that included "a democratic white polity based firmly on dominance of a controlled and excluded black caste".

There emerged from these groups in the 7th and 8th centuries some major polities based on certain ethnic and cultural unities that then came to be identified as Frisians, Saxons, and Franks.

If European politicians don't begin to tackle the laborious task of creating polities based on popular consultation and accountability, the EU will ultimately founder and it won't be because some local restaurant is fleecing confused customers.

They measure a developing country's "polity score", based on factors like transparency and constraints on executive power.

These provinces, like Arabian Iraq, were dependencies of the new Īl-Khan Mongol polity, which was based in Azerbaijan.

Second, he argued that the human polity must be based in free communication between citizens: communicative freedom is a prerequisite of public virtue.

Annals and chronicles recount history, normally written from the perspective of a particular altepetl (locally based polity) and often combining mythical accounts with real events.