Definition of Polity

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Polity

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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Polity Quotations

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
Muhammad Iqbal

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
Paul Wellstone

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

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

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

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
Ralph A. Cram

Polity Translations

polity in German is Gemeinwesen

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