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body politic<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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1. A group of people regarded in a political (rather than private) sense and organized under a common governmental authority.\u00a0<\/strong>[1]<\/span><\/div>\n
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1. A term applied to a corporation, which is usually designated as a \u201cbody corporate and politic.\u201d\u00a0 The term is particularly appropriate to a public corporation invested with powers and duties of government.\u00a0 It is often used, in a rather loose way, to designate the state or nation or sovereign power, or the government of a county or municipality, without distinctly connoting any express and individual corporate character.\u00a0\u00a0Munn v. Illinois<\/em>, 94 U. S. 124, 24 L. Ed. 77<\/span><\/strong>; Coyle v. Mclntire<\/em>, 7 Houst. (Del.) 44, 30 Atl. 728, 40 Am. St. Itep. 109<\/span><\/strong>; Warner v. Beers<\/em>, 23 Wend. (N. Y.) 122<\/span><\/strong>; People v. Morris<\/em>, 13 Wend. (N. Y.) 334<\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong>[2]<\/span><\/div>\n
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1. All of the citizens who make up a governmental unit, such as a school district, village, township, town, borough, city, county, state, or country.\u00a0<\/strong>[3]<\/span><\/div>\n
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1. A social compact by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by laws for the common good.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Munn v Illinois,\u00a0<\/em><\/span>94 US 113, 124, 24 L Ed 77, 84<\/span>.<\/span><\/strong> [4]<\/span><\/div>\n
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body politic and corporate<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1. The government of certain political subdivisions, including towns, cities, and counties.<\/strong>\u00a0 See body corporate<\/em>; body politic<\/em>.\u00a0 See also municipal corporation<\/em>. [3]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. A term often applied to a municipal corporation.\u00a0 A county is such a body.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Waterbury v Board of Comrs.\u00a0<\/em>10 Mont 515, 26 P 1002<\/strong>.<\/strong> [4]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[1]\u00a0Black’s Law Dictionary Deluxe Tenth Edition by Henry Campbell Black & Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner<\/a>. ISBN: 978-0-314-62130-6<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2]: Black’s Law Dictionary\u00a0Second Edition Online,\u00a0<\/em>“BODY POLITIC”:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/thelawdictionary.org\/body-politic\/<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[3]: Ballantine’s Law Dictionary <\/a>Legal Assistant Edition<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Jack Ballantine\u00a0(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Doctored<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by\u00a0Jack G. Handler,\u00a0J.D.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a9 1994 Delmar by Thomson Learning.\u00a0 ISBN 0-8273-4874-6.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[4]:\u00a0Ballantine\u2019s Law Dictionary\u00a0with Pronunciations
\n<\/em>Third Edition<\/a>\u00a0by James A. Ballantine\u00a0(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Edited by William S. Anderson.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a9 1969 by THE LAWYER\u2019S CO-OPERATIVE PUBLISHING COMPANY.\u00a0 Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 68-30931<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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body politic: 1. A group of people regarded in a political (rather than private) sense and organized under a common governmental authority.\u00a0[1] 1. A term applied to a corporation, which is usually designated as a \u201cbody corporate and politic.\u201d\u00a0 The term is particularly appropriate to a public corporation invested with powers and duties of government.\u00a0 … Continue reading Body Politic (and Corporate) – a body of Citizens and the public corporation that governs them under a social compact by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by laws for the common good<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9561,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9609","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18715,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9609\/revisions\/18715"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}