subpolity

Noun

subpolity (plural subpolities)

1. A subdivision of a polity.
   • It is quite conceivable that human history should have begun with a single all-embracing polity, and that as this grew in magnitude and complexity it should have been decentralized and divided into subpolities, each united within by its local peculiarities.1945, Ralph Barton Perry, “Political Frame of World Order”, in One World in the Making, New York, N.Y.: Current Books, Inc., A[aron] A. Wyn, →OCLC, page 77
   • The United States is certainly no tight little city-state, but a continent with wide variation in social and economic conditions. Local heresies from the central conception of the good life are inevitable. And yet, looking at the formal “ordering of the offices,” the legal structure of the...1957 autumn, Norton E[nneking] Long, “Aristotle and the Study of Local Government”, in Alvin Johnson, editor, Social Research […], volume 24, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Graduate Faculty of Political...