MooseLord:
Be careful with that. Not only could you define America as a polity, you could define any nation on earth as a polity. That is because a polity has two definitions: the one Aristotle gave, and the one modern context gives
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salon:
Exactly. If we go by Aristotle's definition, a Democracy is the degenerate version of Polity...which is essentially what America is. That and a Republic.
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