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An official count of population |
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the debt of a gov't or nation to individual creditors |
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the body of official advisers to the head of a gov't; in the US, it consists of the heads of the major executive departments |
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a court that hears cases in several designated locations rather than a single place |
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concerning public finances - expenditures and revenues |
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The approbation or taking on of obligations not originally one's own |
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a tax on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of certain products |
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the shares of capital ownership gained from investing in a corporate enterprise |
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any item, paper or otherwise, used as money |
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arbitrary or tyrannical rule |
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to force people or property into public service without choice, conscript |
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the merging of diverse cultures or peoples into one |
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an investigation carried on with much publicity, supposedly to uncover dangerous activity but actually intended to weaken the political opposition |
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witch-hunt THERE IS A DASH THERE, MKAY? |
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an agreement or covenant between states to preform some legal act |
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in american politics, the assertion that a state may legally invalidate a federal act inconsistent with its rights or sovereignty |
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