[Stylist] An enquiry "Polity"

[Jacobson, Shawn D]

I think it is more nuanced than that.  Aristotle distinguished between "polity" and "Democracy" but I don't remember details.  My college political science classes were way back in the rear view mirror.

Shawn

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Thanks Shawn!  So a * polity is what we would now call a * democracy.

           Jewel
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According to the Greek philosophers, a "polity" was a well-run democracy.

Shawn

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Subject: [Stylist] An enquiry "Polity"

I wondered about who I would send this query to, and then bethought myself that as this list is made up of wordsmiths, the answer was obvious, but whether such smiths will have the answer is yet to be proved.
I was playing one of my IPhone word games last night when I came upon the following:
CLUE:  System of government?
ANSWER:  polity.
I get the link with politics and related words, but polity seems very odd and is a brand new word to
me:  not that that is anything new to Seven Little Words!
Can anyone construct an informatory  sentence that contains polity?

          Jewel


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