political question

American  

noun

Law.

1. a question regarded by the courts as being a matter to be determined by another department of government rather than of law and therefore one with which they will not deal, as the recognition of a foreign state.

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Example Sentences

“This is a political question: Would it look like you’re beating up on somebody who lost their home in a fire?” she asked.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

It was de Tocqueville who famously argued, “Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.”

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2023

Afterwards, Mr Queiroz asked if it was fair for the player to have been asked a political question.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2022

For China’s leader, Xi Jinping, the unrest is a test of his precedent-breaking third term in power and underscores the urgent political question of how he can lead China out of the Covid era.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2022

In recent years the suffragists had influential politicians of both parties to speak at the hearings, thus making woman suffrage a political question.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI by Harper, Ida Husted