the condition of being constituted as a state or other organized community or body:
The polity of ancient Athens became a standard for later governments.
3.
government or administrative regulation:
The colonists demanded independence in matters of internal polity.
4.
a state or other organized community or body.
Origin
1530-40; < Latinpolītīa < Greekpolīteía citizenship, government, form of government, commonwealth, equivalent to polī́te-, variant stem of polī́tēs citizen (see polis, -ite1) + -ia-ia