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• Humanities
  ===Law=== ...thing laid down or fixed. see [https://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=law&searchmode=none Etymonline Dictionary] and the adjective ''legal'' comes fr
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• Personal
  # law: Any individual or formal organization with [[standing]] before the courts. #:''By common law a [[corporation]] or a [[trust]] is legally a '''person'''.''
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• Euthanasia
  ...ntle and easy [[death]]. Used esp. with reference to a proposal that the [[law]] should sanction the putting painlessly to death of those suffering from i ...ministering lethal medicine is considered important[6]. For example, Swiss law on assisted suicide allows assisted suicide, while all forms of active euth
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• Deity
  ...ted to be the directors of time and fate itself, to be the givers of human law and morality, to be the ultimate judges of human worth and behavior, and to The English word "god" comes from Anglo-Saxon, and similar words are found in many Germ
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• Quentin Skinner
  ...achiavelli]], and more recently (in ''Liberty before Liberalism'' 1998 the English republicans of the mid-seventeenth century (including [[John Milton]], Jame ...storian [[J.G.A. Pocock]], whose ''The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law'' (1957) was a significant early influence. Another important stimulus came
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• Family
  '''Family''' denotes a group of people affiliated by a common ancestry, affinity or co-residence. Although the [[concept]] of consanguini ...ily consists of one or more parents/guardians and their children. The most common form of this family is regularly referred to as a nuclear family. [https://
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• Sabotage
  ...[[earth]] and its inhabitants. The [[[https://www.fbi.gov|FBI] and other [[law]] enforcement agencies use the term eco-terrorist when applied to damage of ...on and criminal penalties instead of detention as a prisoner of war. It is common for a government in power during war or supporters of the war policy to use
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• Constitution
  ...[[formal]] or [[informal]] [[system]] of [[primary]] [[principle]]s and [[law]]s that [[regulate]]s a [[government]] or other [[institution]]. ...nstitutions, the term ''constitution'' could be applied to any important [[law]] that governed the functioning of a government.
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• The Hague
  ...ts with the "Hagenezen", who speak "plat Haags" ("plat" meaning "flat" or "common"). There is relatively little social interaction between these groups. * [https://www.denhaag.com/ City of Den Haag (English)]
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• Theology
  ...ford: OUP, 1998), Ignaz Goldziher's ''Introduction to Islamic Theology and Law'' (Princeton University Press, 1981), Roger Jackson and John J. Makransky's The word ''theology'' comes from late middle English (originally applying only to Christianity) from French ''théologie'', from
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• Golden rule
  The Golden Rule was a common principle in ancient Greek philosophy. A few examples: ...93) proclaimed the Golden Rule (both in negative and positive form) as the common principle for many religions.[https://www.religioustolerance.org/parliame.h
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• Deduction
  ...les fall and how the planets move, [[Isaac Newton]] induced his [[Newton's law of universal gravitation|theory of gravity]]. In the 19th century, [[Discov ...RECORDE Whetst. Xj, For subtraction your nombers are sette downe after the common maner, firste the totall, and then the deduction. 1703 T. N. City & C. Purc
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• Literary theory
  ...plied to non-fiction, [[popular fiction]], [[film]], historical documents, law, advertising, etc., in the related field of [[cultural studies]]. In fact, ...it was not until the broad impact of structuralism began to be felt in the English-speaking academic world that "literary theory" was thought of as a unified
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• Contempt
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from Latin contemptus, from contemnere ...of others, and can also be included in the ‘CAD triad’ as they exhibit the common theme of violation of moral [[ethics]]. Ekman and Friesen’s [[study]] tha
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• Theocracy
  ...civil government.[3] Theocratic governments enact [[Theonomy|theonomic]] [[law]]s. ...erstood theocracy as a fourth form of government in which only God and his law is [[sovereign]]. Josephus' definition was widely accepted until the enligh
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• Secularism
  ...n, replacing [[law]]s based on [[scripture]] (such as the Torah and Sharia law) with civil laws, and eliminating discrimination on the basis of religion. ...re must be agreed on methods of problem-solving, and a common framework of law; in a secular society these are as limited as possible.
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• Evil
  ...'. The root meaning is of obscure origin though shown to be akin to modern English 'over' and modern German 'über' (OE ''ofer'') and 'up' (OE ''up'', ''upp'' ...statement that love of God and love of your fellow man is the whole of the law. Still others emphasize the [[idea]] that [[humanity]] is, within itself, i
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• Perception
  ...6 W. KIRBY & W. SPENCE Introd. Entomol. IV. xlv. 234 The agent between the common sensory and the sense is the consciousness or perception of the impression. ...gy]]. The oldest quantitative [[law]] in psychology is the [[Weber-Fechner law]], which quantifies the relationship between the intensity of physical stim
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• Upanishads
  ...ishishtadvaita]], founded by [[Ramanuja]]charya and it has some aspects in common with the other two. ...rāyaṇi]] Upanishads are sometimes added. All these date from before the [[Common Era]]. From [[linguistics|linguistic]] evidence, the oldest among them are
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• Surveillance
  ...[biometrics]] software, and laws such as the Communications Assistance For Law Enforcement Act, governments now possess an unprecedented ability to monito ...are required to be available for unimpeded real-time monitoring by Federal law enforcement agencies.[5][6][7]
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