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• Theonomy
  ...th]]ful revival of the historic Protestant view of the [[Old Testament]] [[law]] as espoused by many European Reformers and [[Puritans]]. Some in the mode ...rates stood under obligation to the relevant portions of the Old Testament law, for instance, the stipulations as to what punishment crimes deserve.
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• 2011-02-15-Join Us in Thought
  ...eam vast sums of money from their income streams into a phantom investment system, which is the equivalent to a rich person’s poker game, except for the fa ...e got their hooks into their customers’ bank accounts via the direct debit system of payments and similar schemes, it is often a difficult job to cancel thos
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• Divine Counselor
  ...'Divine Counselor'''. The evidence for or against an individual, a planet, system, constellation, or universe is presented and interpreted by the [[Censors]] ...e field of law, a counselor, counsellor, counselor-at-law or counsellor-at-law is an attorney
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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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• Adultery
  ...urse]] between a married person and one who is not his or her spouse. Some legal jurisdictions have defined it as "crime against marriage", (Germany: § 135 Although the definition of "adultery" differs in nearly every legal system, the common theme is [[Human sexual behavior|sexual relations]] outside of
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• Sovereignty
  ..., and most often the [[head of state]]. Thus the legal maxim, "there is no law without a sovereign." ...ntatives to government. This is known as a [[representative democracy]], a system of government currently used in most western nations and former colonies. P
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• Constitution
  ...[[formal]] or [[informal]] [[system]] of [[primary]] [[principle]]s and [[law]]s that [[regulate]]s a [[government]] or other [[institution]]. # A legal [[document]] describing such a formal system.
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• Analogy
  ...discussed since [[classical antiquity]] by philosophers, scientists and [[law]]yers. The last few decades have shown a renewed interest in analogy, most ...analogies that have become entrenched as standard parts of the linguistic system, whereas clearer cases of analogy have simply not (yet) done so (e.g. Langa
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• Politics
  ...decisions]]. Although the term is generally applied to [[behavior]] within civil governments, politics is observed in all [[human]] [[group]] interactions, ...t]] is the [[body]] that has the power to make and [[authority]] to make [[law]]s, rules, and policies. Governments exist in all institutions that have l
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• University of the South
  ...dents and four faculty members present. It is also recorded that after the Civil War, [[Robert E. Lee]] was offered the position of Vice-Chancellor but decl Schools of dentistry, engineering, law, medicine, and nursing once existed, and a secondary school was part of the
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• Secularism
  :a. As the name of a definitely professed system of belief, promulgated by G. J. Holyoake (1817-1906). ...ng [[law]]s based on [[scripture]] (such as the Torah and Sharia law) with civil laws, and eliminating discrimination on the basis of religion. This is said
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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 However, many civil rights and [[privacy]] groups such as the [https://www.eff.org|Electronic F
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• Entering the Era of Deep Politics
  ...evil persons." True enough, there are perpetrators against whom compelling legal cases can be made; but in the final analysis, all are implicated. We are al ...ger of blame pointing outward to those we must hold accountable before the law, must sometime point all the more inwardly to us, and eventually to the tra
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• Paper 72 - Government on a Neighboring Planet
  ...race]] living on a not far-distant [[planet]] belonging to the [[Satania]] system. ...nary presentation was granted, for it is most unusual for [[the system]] [[System Sovereign|rulers]] to consent to the [[narration]] on one planet of the aff
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• Languages and Literature
  A '''language''' is a [[system]] of arbitrary symbols and the rules used to manipulate them. '''Language' Languages are not just sets of symbols. They also contain a [[grammar]], or system of rules, used to manipulate the symbols. While a set of symbols may be use
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• Civilization
  ...] form of ''civis'', meaning a "[[citizen]]" or "townsman" governed by the law of his city. ...rbarian|barbarism]]"; as contrasted to ''civility'', meaning politeness or civil virtue — until the 18th century.
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• Causality
  ...(the factors, elements, constituents, ingredients) forming the whole (the system, structure, compound, complex, composite, or combination) (the part-whole c ...aces the account of causes in terms of fundamental principles or general [[law]]s, as the intended whole (macrostructure) is the cause that explains the p
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• Communism
  ...ate]]s, a form of government in which the state operates under a one-party system and declares allegiance to Marxism-Leninism or a derivative thereof, even i ...o power in Russia (1917), disrupted by the [[World War I]]. After years of civil war (1917–1921), international isolation and internal struggle in the Com
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• Episcopal Church in the United States of America
  ...on debate, opposed the death penalty, supported affirmative action and the civil rights movement. In some dioceses, openly homosexual men and women can be o The full legal name of the national church corporate body is the ''Domestic and Foreign Mi
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• Community
  ::c. Often applied to those members of a civil community, who have certain circumstances of nativity, religion, or pursuit ...assical liberalism]] and [[capitalism]] while advocating phenomena such as civil society. Not necessarily hostile to social liberalism, communitarianism rat
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