body politic

Example Sentences

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It was the most extreme expression of a wound to the body politic that has been allowed to fester.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

We are affirmed in the knowledge that we are the body politic.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2025

These are the alternative universes of our body politic.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2024

"In the body politic as in the body personal, nonresistance to the milder indulgences paves the way for nonresistance to the deadlier."

From Salon • Jul. 20, 2023

His silence on the slavery question was strategic, believing as he did that slavery was a cancer on the body politic of America that could not at present be removed without killing the patient.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis