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  • as the Prime Minister and de facto dictator of Portugal from 1932 to 1968 ... Franco, some regard him as champion of traditional values, including ...
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  • William Penn (October 14, 1644 – July 30, 1718) founded the Province ... of the people in power, and a separation of powers—again ideas that ...
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  • – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809 ... lawyer, inventor, violinist, and the founder of the University of Virginia ...
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  • infamous for the Italians' illegal use of mustard gas. The war resulted ... Italy was merely copying other European powers, which had carved out huge ...
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  • Pontiff") was the high priest of the Ancient Roman College of ... The title of "Pontifex Maximus," dating back to the times ...
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  • Muslim state. She was elected Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1988, only to be ... Bhutto achieved the distinction of becoming the first female head ...
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  • :"Fall of Communism" redirects here. For the fall of the ... structure that ensured separation of powers among the judicial ...
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  • The Great Lakes of Africa are a series of lakes in and around the ... the three largest lakes have a host of middle-sized and small lakes ...
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  • 1618 and 1648, principally on the territory of today's Germany, and involved ... by 30 percent on average; in the territory of Brandenburg, the losses had ...
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  • commonly used in the religious practice of Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism ... "to access progressively deeper levels of the unconscious, ultimately ...
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  • especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the ... which operate under a stricter separation of powers whereby the executive ...
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  • 1651 book Leviathan set the agenda for much of subsequent Western political ... In particular, the doctrine of separation of powers is rejected: ...
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  • He led France during World War I and was one of the major voices behind the ... Clemenceau, however, secured France's trusteeship of Syria and ...
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  • ====Separation of powers==== It was Scalia's view that clear lines ... that the arrangement violated separation of powers and that the United ...
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  • The Occupation of the Channel Islands refers to the military occupation ... The islands were too small to serve as a launching pad for an invasion ...
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  • [[Image:Salishan_langs.png|thumb|222px|Pre-contact distribution of ... The Coast Salish tribe consists of three geographically divided areas ...
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  • educator, and social thinker. The founder of "anthroposophy," ... The result would be a society-wide separation of powers. Steiner argued that ...
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  • Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country ... with a multi-party system and separation of powers in three branches ...
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  • Freedom of religion is a political principle guaranteeing freedom ... The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations ...
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  • statesman, writer, lawyer, and soldier. One of the United States' most ... Hamilton put the new United States of America onto a sound economic ...
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  • The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union (commonly referred ... The Articles set the rules for operations of the "United States ...
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  • Nagaland (Hindi: नागालैंड) is a state of India located ... Nagaland has played a crucial role in the development of the Republic ...
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  • Brunei, officially the State of Brunei, Abode of Peace (Negara Brunei ... world not holding elections. A long period of political stability has been ...
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  • With an area of 40,919 square miles (105,980 square kilometers), or ... established in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany on October 7, 1949 ...
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  • 2, 1923) was the twenty-ninth President of the United States, serving ... Harding also believed in the clear separation of powers; that it was ...
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  • during the mid-1960s, and the President of Pakistan from 1958 to 1969 ... Ayub Khan was born in the village of Rehana in Haripur District to ...
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  • (May 2, 1772 – March 25, 1801), was one of the earliest of the German ... Low German nobility. In the different lines of his family, many important ...
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  • Magna Carta Libertatum ("Great Charter of Freedoms"), is an English ... Magna Carta was originally created because of disagreements between ...
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  • The Council of Europe is the oldest international organization working ... and violates the principles of separation of powers and the rule of law. ...
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  • territories, establishing the Empire of the Great Qing. The Qing Dynasty ... with Han Chinese culture, and saw the height of Imperial Chinese influence ...
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  • French: [ʒiʁɔ̃dɛ̃], or Girondists, were a group of loosely affiliated ... human rights and Montesquieu's separation of powers, the Girondins initially ...
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  • 31, 1984) nee Nehru) was Prime Minister of India from January 19, 1966 ... Daughter of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and ...
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  • was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties ... and agnosticism that marked him as one of the most famous American lawyers ...
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  • The TVA's jurisdiction covers most of Tennessee, parts of Alabama ... It was promoted as an example of local democracy, cheap power, environmental ...
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  • :This article refers to the government of Paris in 1871, for the one ... in tenor, depending on the ideology of the commenter. In a formal sense ...
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  • and newspaper columnist, best known as one of the principle figures in the ... and poets, as well as to American poets of all races and creeds. He has ...
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  • Saint Benedict of Nursia (c. 480 – c. 547) was a major Christian ... known being Monte Cassino in the mountains of southern Italy. He became legendary ...
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  • that every person is the absolute owner of their own life and should be ... powers, and proposed a separation of powers among the latter as ...
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  • Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, which studies fundamental ... existing or possible theories and practices of social, political matters, ...
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  • Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island nation ... The site of ancient port cities and a possession of several empires ...
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  • all are independent. Arabs form the majority of the populations of Algeria ... designation birthed during the days of the British Empire, and encompasses ...
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  • was a novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist school, who ... Despite the dark tone of Hardy's oeuvre—or perhaps because ...
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  • English name for the former Federal Republic of Germany, from its founding ... With an area of 95,976 square miles (248,577 square kilometers), or ...
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  • is situated at the north-eastern end of the Houses of Parliament building ... Although not as historical a London landmark as the Tower of London ...
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  • scholar who served as the Solicitor General of the United States from 1973 ... Despite being recognized as one of the most influential legal ...
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  • The Oriental Republic of Uruguay, or Uruguay, is a country located ... wedge-shaped country between the two major powers of Brazil and Argentina has ...
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  • and influential thinker in the history of Western thought. He was a student ... Among the most famous of his philosophical contributions are the accounts ...
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  • - December 10, 1999) was the first president of Croatia from 1990 until 1999 ... For him, this made Croatia an ideal candidate for membership of the ...
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  • 1788 – April 19, 1824) was an English poet of the Romantic school, who was ... iconoclast. Their poetry would share some of the same interests, though ...
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  • Leadership is the ability to lead or someone who is the head of a ... the twentieth century. Compare the separation of powers (legislative, judicial ...
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