body-politic
Organized political community
Body-politic is a formal term for a nation or state viewed as a collective entity—the people of a country considered as an organized political unit.
The metaphor treats society as a living body, with citizens as members and government as the organizing principle.
The term appears most often in legal, philosophical, or historical contexts: The health of the body-politic depends on civic participation.
Condition or mode
- nationSovereign political entity
- commonwealthState for public good
- republicState with elected leaders
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
parliament · legislature · constitution · citizenry · electorate · polity · government · civic
English political philosopher
- LeviathanScriptural marine serpent
- RousseauFrench surname, philosopher or painter
- LockeEnglish empiricist philosopher's surname
- contractEnforceable written agreement
consent · sovereignty · legitimacy · obligation · authority · representation · Aristotle · Plato
Inhabitants of a place
masses · community · society · demos · nation-state · constituency · inhabitants · population
state
Condition or mode
- nationSovereign political entity
- commonwealthState for public good
- republicState with elected leaders
sovereignty · parliament · legislature · constitution · citizenry · electorate · polity · government · civic · jurisdiction
Hobbes
English political philosopher
- LeviathanScriptural marine serpent
- RousseauFrench surname, philosopher or painter
- LockeEnglish empiricist philosopher's surname
contract · consent · sovereignty · legitimacy · obligation · authority · representation · Aristotle · Plato · republic
populace
Inhabitants of a place
public · masses · community · society · demos · nation-state · constituency · inhabitants · population · folk
members
People in an organization
corruption · decay · vitality · organism · corpus · unity · wholeness · sickness · remedy · cure
body-politicindividual
One separate human being
private citizen · single person · private person · natural person · subject
body-politicanarchy
Disorder from absent authority
statelessness · state of nature · lawlessness · failed state · chaos
body-politicprivate sphere
Individual's protected domain
private life · domestic sphere · household · family · civil society
body, politic, bodies, bodily, bodied, disembody, disembodied, embodied, embody