15 examples of body-politic in sentences

A delusion seemed to have taken possession of our public men, that the people wanted doctors of the body-politic to rule over them, and, if those were not to be had, would put up with the next best thing,quacks.

Yet a careful examination of the German body-politic will reveal symptoms unlike those to be found in any other nation.

In recent years, then, despite many hopeful signs, and despite increasing activity in almost every sphere of life, a kind of progressive paralysis has taken hold upon the body-politic.

It was resolved, however, that Capua should only be inhabited and peopled as a city, that there should be no body-politic, nor assembly of the senate or people, nor magistrates.

"It was praised," writes his son, "in the leading journals; the sale was rapid and extensive; and my father's reputation was by universal consent greatly raised, and permanently established, by this poem," The number of anonymous letters it brought the author, some of gratitude, and some of resentment (for it had laid its finger on many sores in the body-politic), showed how deeply his touch had been felt.

These rights are common to men and women alike, and whatever citizen or subject exists as a member of any body-politic, under any form of government, is entitled to demand from the sovereign power the full protection of these rights.

Whilst the country has been pure and patriotic, the cities have been the first cancers to appear upon the body-politic in all ages of the world.

It was cutting very close to the bone to carve such a shred of humanity from the body-politic to make a soldier of.

Had we been of French or Spanish descent, there would have been barricades, coup-d'états, pronunciamentos; but the English race know better how to treat the body-politic.

Strange as it may appear to some readers, that thus the polished Romans might have learned a lesson of civilization from the Fijians, they will not reject our suggestion, when they reflect, that, only a short time ago, they were, probably, as much surprised at finding the government of so great a country as France adopting imperial Rome as a model body-politic.

Your Northern philosophy ought to be old enough to teach you that spasms in the body-politic shake off no atom of disease,that reform, to be enduring, must be patient, gradual, inflexible as the Great Reformer.

Did the States create the Federal government, or did the people of the whole United States, acting as a body-politic, create it?" "Your alternative seems contradictory," said I. "In what respect?"

Therefore I think that the United States government is a creature of the States and not of the people as a body-politic; for there could have been no such body-politic.

Therefore I think that the United States government is a creature of the States and not of the people as a body-politic; for there could have been no such body-politic.

"And the body-politic, whether ecclesiastical or civil, must be dealt with after the same manner, as the body-natural."

15 examples of  body-politic  in sentences