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| giving freedom to a prisoner, typically for a political infraction |
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| the distribution of resources based on certain requirements, mainly need |
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| the Hindu hierarchial social system that once established one's |
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| Any agreed upon change made to an official document. |
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| Absence of any form of political authority. A state of lawlessness, confusion, and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government.) |
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| racial segregation; specifically : a former policy of segregation and political and economic discrimination against non-European groups in the Republic of South Africa |
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| pacify, conciliate; especially: to buy off (an aggressor) by concessions usually at the sacrifice of principles |
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| settlement of a dispute by the decision of a judge, umpire or committee. |
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| by the best individuals or by a small privileged class |
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| government in which one person possesses unlimited power |
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| an unfair act or policy resulting from prejudice. |
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| intolerance and prejudice; obstinate and unreasoning attachment to one's own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them |
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| supported by members of two parties, especially two major political parties |
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| the art or practice of pushing a dangerous situation or confrontation to the limit of safety especially to force a desired outcome |
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| a : a body of nonelective government officials b : an administrative policy-making group |
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| an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market |
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| 1 : the status of being a citizen 2 a : membership in a community (as a college) b : the quality of an individual's response to membership in a community |
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| freedom from arbitrary governmental interference (as with the right of free speech) specifically by denial of governmental power and in the United States especially as guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. |
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| a group sharing the same economic or social status b : social rank; especially : high social rank |
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| a temporary alliance of distinct parties, persons, or states for joint action, or a union of some kind. |
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| the system in which a territory is controlled by people from another land. |
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| form of socialism advocated by Karl Marx; according to Marx, class struggle was inevitable and would lead to the creation of a classless society in which all wealth and property would be owned by the community as a whole. |
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| a point reached in a negotiation where a general agreement of all or most of the people consulted is achieved |
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| the disposition to preserve or restore what is established and traditional and to limit change. |
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| document that limits a government’s power by law. |
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| an organization of people legally bound together by a charter to conduct some type of business. |
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| the values, beliefs and perceptions of the world that are learned and are shared by members of a community or society, and which they use to interpret experience and to generate behavior, and that are reflected in their own behavior. |
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| A leader who obtains power by means of impassioned appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace. 2. A leader of the common people in ancient times. |
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| by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives. 2. A political or social unit that has such a government |
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| autocrat who leads his/her country exclusively; dictator, tyrant |
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| the relaxing of tensions between countries through negotiations and agreements. |
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| something that serves to restrain another from doing something. |
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| ruler who has complete control over a government; in ancient Rome, a leader appointed to rule for six months in times of emergency. |
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| unequal treatment or barriers |
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| to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote |
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| the management of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services, or the material welfare of humankind. |
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| the feeling of superiority of the upper class or favored group. |
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| a period of time in history. |
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| standards of right and wrong; morals. |
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| the killing or forcible removal of people of different ethnicities from an area by aggressors so that only the ethnic group of the aggressors remains. |
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| 1. Sociology. the belief in the inherent superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture. 2. a tendency to view alien groups or cultures from the perspective of one's own. |
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