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Example sentences for "body politic"

  • 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.

  • Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.

  • 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.

  • It is without public weal or 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.

  • It makes the company a body politic in fact and name, &c.

  • 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.


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