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In Britain (or at least England), the tradition of sectarian enmity was not so much purged from the body politic as mislaid.

and that it is consequently against the nature of the body politic for the Sovereign to impose on itself a law which it cannot infringe.

Coriolanus' fate suggests this perennial tension between the city and the manly arm of the body politic.

The continuance of such an injustice could not but prove the undoing of the body politic.

Beware of the fifth column. They often infiltrate into key positions and seek to undermine the body politic from within.

In mediaeval times rivers were the veins of the body politic as well as economic.

It is a rational force employed by the body politic in the service of itself as a body.

Whether the body politic will recognise it remains unclear.

He was worried about the army's loyalties and the those of the body politic.

In like manner, the body politic mimicked the human body in being dominated by various kinds of similar forces.

In the eyes of all reformers such as Plato, the "body politic" could not operate without interference from the top.

Imprisonment is what you reserve for those who are preying upon society, those who are enemies of the body politic;

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Notes on the Tao of the Body Politic