Political Status

Political status refers to the legal and official standing of a person, group, or territory within a political system. It can refer to the rights, responsibilities, and privileges that individuals or entities have within a particular political entity, such as citizenship, residency, or membership in a political party. Political status can also refer to the sovereignty or autonomy of a territory, such as whether it is a state, colony, or protectorate.

Political

Pertaining or relating to the policy or the administration of government, state or national. 

People v. Morgan, 90 Illinois 558

Black’s Law Dictionary, 4th Edition, Page 1319

Status

The rights, duties, capacities, and incapacities which determine a person to a given class. Campb. Austin 137

The legal relation of individual to rest of the community.

Duryea v. Duryea, 46 Idaho 512, 269 P. 987, 988

Black’s Law Dictionary, 4th Edition, Page 1580