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| fervent belief and loyalty given to the political unit of the nation state |
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| the legal principle that the oldest son inherits all family property or land |
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| an economic arrangement by which a number of investors pool their capital for investment |
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| a legal document granted by a government to some group or agency to implement a stated purpose, and spelling out the attending rights and obligations |
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| an official count of population, often also including other information about the population. |
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| concerning the decentralized medieval social system of personal obligations between rulers and ruled |
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| a poor person obligated to a fixed term of unpaid labor, often in exchange for a benefit such as transportation, protection, or training |
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| originally, religious freedom granted by an established church to a religious minority |
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| a frontier farmer who illegally occupied land owned by others or not yet officially opened for settlement. |
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| in politics, a small territory or state between two larger, antagonistic powers and intended to minimize the possibility of conflict between them |
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| popular American term for an ethnically diverse population that is presumed to be "melting" toward some eventual commonality |
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