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John Locke
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an English philosopher. Locke is considered the first of the British empiricists, but is equally important to social contract theory.
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Thomas Hobbes
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an English philosopher, remembered today for his work on political philosophy. His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory.
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Federal Government
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The federal government of the United States is the central government entity established by the United States Constitution, which shares sovereignty over the United States with the governments of the individual U.S. states.
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Democracy
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can denote either the power or complete rule by the people.
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Unitary Government
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sovereign state governed as one single unit in which the central government is supreme and any administrative divisions (subnational units) exercise only powers that the central government chooses to delegate.
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Sovereign
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is the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a territory.
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Dictatorship
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A dictatorship is defined as an autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual, the dictator, without hereditary ascension.
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Second continental congress
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The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met beginning in May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun.
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The Federalist
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are a series of 85 articles advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution.
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Declaration of Independence
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The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire.
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Magna Carta
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is an English legal charter, originally issued in the year 1215. It was written in Latin and is known by its Latin name. The usual English translation of Magna Carta is Great Charter.
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Three Fifths Compromise
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Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the population of slaves would be counted for enumeration purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives.
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Anti-Federalists
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Anti-Federalism is a political philosophy which opposes the concept of Federalism.
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Implied Powers
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"Implied powers" are those powers authorized by a legal document which, while not stated, are deemed to be implied by powers expressly stated.
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Delegated Powers
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Expressed powers given to one branch of government by the Constitution, which are assigned to another government agency with express consent of the first.
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Reserved Powers
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is a doctrine reserved exclusively for the states, that is used in the interpretation of the Constitution of Australia.
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Amendment
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A change made to a previously adopted law or motion
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Bill of Rights
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is the name by which the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution are known.
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Checks and Balances
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the government will always have balance power
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Rule of Law
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simply means that the law is above everyone and it applies to everyone. Whether governors or governed, rulers or ruled, no one is above the law, no one is exempted from the law, and no one can grant exemption to the application of the law.
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Separation of Powers
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is a model for the governance of democratic states. The model was first developed in ancient Greece and came into widespread use by the Roman Republic as part of the uncodified Constitution of the Roman Republic.
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Limited Government
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a government where any more than minimal governmental intervention in personal liberties and the economy is not usually allowed by law, usually in a written Constitution. It is closely related to libertarianism, classical liberalism, and some tendencies of liberalism and conservatism in the United States.
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