Form into a corporation, form into a body politic.
Did these commands enjoin the unconditional and universal destruction of the individuals, or merely of the body politic?
Did these commands enjoin the unconditional and universal destruction of the individuals, or merely of the body politic?
Did these commands enjoin the unconditional and universal destruction of the inhabitants or merely of the body politic?
A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation.
Artificial, or Fictitious, person (Law), a corporation or body politic.
As the Pilgrims landed north of the limits of the Company from which they received their patent, and under which they expected to become a "body politic," it became to them "void and useless.
It is evident that when they left Holland they expected to become a body politic, using among themselves civil government, and to choose their own rulers from among themselves.
Palfrey forcibly states the result of their doings in the following words: "Massachusetts, as a body politic, was now no more.
Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens.
A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual.
To accomplish this result it was only necessary to invent a deme or township, circumscribed with boundaries, to christen it with a name, and organize the people therein as a body politic.
When political society was instituted on the basis of the deme or township, and all the residents of the deme became a body politic, irrespective of their gens or tribe, the coalescence became complete.
Rousseau pointed out very forcibly the incompatibility with civil government of a religion depending on a priesthood whose organization extends beyond the territory of the country itself and forms a body politic.
This he finds in the association of the citizens united, as above described, in a body politic.
Molina also draws attention to the fact that there is a great difference between a member of a body politic and a member of the human body; this identification, if pushed far enough, becomes an analogical quibble.
They are as slaves under a master, not as subjects in a body politic; therefore they may be sacrificed for the good of the suppositum.
The state has no dominion over the life of its members, and there is a vast difference between the members of the human body and those of a body politic.
In that year they obtained a grant from the New Plymouth company, but were never incorporated as a body politic by royal charter.
That the governor and company are, by the patent, a body politic, invested with the power to make freemen.
A prince iz the representativ of a nation or state, so that allegiance to him, iz merely allegiance to a state or body politic.
And afterwards 6, "for special purposes the law makes him a body politic, immortal and invisible, whereunto our allegiance cannot appertain.
Therefore he was not considered as belonging to the “body politic.
The exception was slaves, who were not regarded as members of the “body politic.
We have already seen, that no member of a body politic, whether composed of States or individuals, does or can possess a right to annul or repeal the law; and that the contrary proposition involves a contradiction in terms.
Independent States may form themselves into a body politic, as well as independent individuals.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "body politic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
