Examples from literature

• All the individual members of the body politic will thus live comfortably and well. 
• He pronounced prejudice—whether religious, racial, patriotic, political—the destroyer of the body politic. 
• The body politic of Russia contains about six millions of gifted and undoubtedly industrious Jews. 
• The bonds which hold together the body politic are not sufficient. 
• When, therefore, women entered formally into the body politic of these United States, they entered into a place of power already familiar to them in many of its activities.