a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another
a politically organized body of people under a single government "the state has elected a new president" "African nations" "students who had come to the nation's capitol" "the country's largest manufacturer" "an industrialized land" - res publica- body politic
the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)