polity

They would be better served to read the polity as Black/not-Black and look for regional and economic differences between racial and ethnic groups.

It is a nation, a polity recast in his time and split pretty much down the middle on its constitutional future.

The Reconstruction amendments were seeking to address the status of newly freed formerly enslaved Black people and actually incorporate them into the polity and create an egalitarian society.

So it will be, unhappily for our rapidly decomposing polity, with this apparent assassination attempt against Donald Trump.

From the nature of our highly diverse pre-contact society of small, autonomous polities to the destructive forces of successive colonial regimes, California Indians’ distinct history is often incompatible with federal acknowledgment criteria.