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- DictionaryBod·y pol·i·tic/ˌbädē ˈpälətik/
noun
- 1. the people of a nation, state, or society considered collectively as an organized group of citizens: "individual dissent was considered necessary to the health of the body politic"
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1 day ago · Originally printed in newspapers in New York and elsewhere, The Federalist Papers are now foundational documents of American history and political thought. Federalist No. 1, written by Alexander Hamilton using the pseudonym “Publius”, began as a response to two earlier essays written against the ratification (by “Cato” and “Brutus ...
5 days ago · Bull, Jacob/Holmberg, Tora/Åsberg, Cecilia/Roscher, Mieke: Curating the Body Politic: The Spatiality of the Zoo and the Symbolic Construction of German Nationhood (Berlin 1933-1961). 2017/11/22. S. 115-136.
2 days ago · In the United States, politics functions within a framework of a constitutional federal republic and presidential system, with three distinct branches that share powers: the U.S. Congress which forms the legislative branch, a bicameral legislative body comprising the House of Representatives and the Senate; the executive branch, which is headed ...
4 days ago · The COVID-19 pandemic had an exceptionally long and consequential rally effect in China. Drawing on an eight-wave nationwide survey, this article shows that the Wuhan lockdown boosted public confidence in the central government. The persistence of the pandemic and the initial success of the zero-COVID policy sustained the enhanced trust in the ...
3 days ago · Political Ideologies and Worldviews: An Introduction takes a “pluralist” approach and, in addition to being the first open textbook on its subject, also pushes back against the Eurocentric tendencies of standard textbooks by including chapters on Indigenous worldviews and Confucianism. Providing the latest scholarship on “classical ideologies” (liberalism, conservatism, socialism ...
20 hours ago · In Palestine, a century of colonialism has created many distortions in the Palestinian body politic, transforming the once-revolutionary PLO into a Vichy-like regime that kills the nation in the ...
1 day ago · Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates that includes a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers ...
