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
What hope of freedom was there unless Black Americans were accepted as full members of the body politic?
From Slate • Oct. 7, 2025
We are affirmed in the knowledge that we are the body politic.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2025
After the war ended, it resumed and became ever stronger in the Confederate portion of the body politic.
From Salon • Mar. 23, 2024
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
