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The English term "body politic" is sometimes used in modern legal contexts to describe a type of legal person, typically the state itself or an entity connected to it. A body politic is a type of taxable legal person in British law, for example, [60] and likewise a class of legal person in Indian law.
Fritz found that Nolan's chart was a great help with explaining how libertarianism was distinct from conservatism and liberalism. He created the Quiz in 1987, and it was the first political Quiz posted on the Internet. [2] The first form the Quiz took was as a business card, with the ten questions printed on it along with the chart.
Genopolitics is the study of the genetic basis of political behavior and attitudes. It combines behavior genetics, psychology, and political science and it is closely related to the emerging fields of neuropolitics (the study of the neural basis of political attitudes and behavior) and political physiology (the study of biophysical correlates of political attitudes and behavior).
The work consists of eight books, falling roughly into three 'blocks': the private 'frivolities' of the courtiers (books I-III), the public offices of different classes, with a focus on the prince and the body politic (books IV-VI), and the 'footprints' of the philosophers (books VII and VIII). [4]
The King's Two Bodies (subtitled, A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology) is a 1957 historical book by Ernst Kantorowicz.It concerns medieval political theology and the distinctions separating the "body natural" (a monarch's corporeal being) and the "body politic".
A body politic is a metaphor in which a political community is considered as a single entity and likened to a human body. Body politic may also refer to: The Body Politic, a Canadian monthly magazine published from 1971 to 1987; Body Politic, 2009 television pilot, which was not picked up as a series; Sociology of the body
body politic: a political community conceived as a physical body. bread and circuses: satisfaction of shallow or immediate desires of the populace at the expense of good policy; also, the erosion of civic duty and the public life in a populace.
One notable example is the Nolan Chart, devised by American libertarian David Nolan. Additionally, comparable charts were presented in Albert Meltzer and Stuart Christie 's "The Floodgates of Anarchy" in 1970, [ 15 ] and in the Rampart Journal of Individualist Thought by Maurice C. Bryson and William R. McDill in 1968.