body politic

As Reagan injected the toxicity of racial division into the American body politic, Jackson spoke about “coming up together”.

Negotiation and compromise are the lifeblood of democracy, not poison to the body politic.

A divisive selfishness had emerged in the late 1960s that had begun to dominate the body politic.

Our nation may have healed, but there are still exposed nerves that, when touched, cause trauma to the body politic.

Government activism on behalf of the common man was an unforgivable sin to be extirpated from the body politic.

It will make the parties horizontal layers in the body politic.

The knight was becoming superfluous in the economy of the body politic.

But there is a new commandment added to the list of those to be memorized by the body-politic.

The wrong done the body politic may fester unseen, but it festers on all the same.

It would be the thrusting of a probe deep into the tenderest and sorest parts of the Confederate body-politic.