Country

The Capillary Wave: Word Index

Country

Source of photograph: Country.
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In the context of law and governance the word “country” means something very different from what many citizens believe it means. This article: The Framework For Law And Governance explains in detail the relationship of a country to its citizens.

A country is a polity. Below is the definition of the word polity.

Source of photograph: Polity.

A word that is very closely linked with polity is policy. A country is run under the policies of its political leaders, and the police ensure conformity to the polities policies. The root word for all of these similar sounding words above is: polis; which means city, state.

Source of photograph: Policy
Source of photograph: State

In terms of law and governance a country is a polity which is a (body politic) political organisation of the public body as a whole, who are the state. At law a country is what is known as a legal fiction and or “person“.