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| a specified or stated manner of consideration or appraisal; an opinion, attitude, or judgment |
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| government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. |
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| the national legislative body of the U.S., consisting of the Senate, or upper house, and the House of Representatives, or lower house, as a continuous institution |
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civil disobedience
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| the refusal to obey certain laws or governmental demands for the purpose of influencing legislation or government policy, characterized by the employment of such nonviolent techniques as boycotting, picketing, and nonpayment of taxes. |
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| freedom from the control, influence, support, aid, or the like, of others |
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| the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group |
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| the belief in the inherent superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture; a tendency to view alien groups or cultures from the perspective of one's own. |
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| a slow, usually unconscious modification of individual and social activity in adjustment to cultural surroundings |
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| a broad group in society having common economic, cultural, or political status |
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| a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, esp. when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs. |
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| freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control; freedom from control, interference, obligation, restriction, hampering conditions, etc.; power or right of doing, thinking, speaking, etc., according to choice. |
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| the state or quality of being equal; correspondence in quantity, degree, value, rank, or ability. |
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| an advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage, esp. to women |
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| a person engaged in any similar demonstration, as against a government's policies or actions, before an embassy, office building, construction project, etc.; a person stationed by a union or the like outside a factory, store, mine, etc., in order to dissuade or prevent workers or customers from entering it during a strike |
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| an organized passive protest, esp. against racial segregation, in which the demonstrators occupy seats prohibited to them, as in restaurants and other public places; any organized protest in which a group of people peacefully occupy and refuse to leave a premises |
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| the act of moving along or proceeding in orderly succession or in a formal and ceremonious manner, as a line of people, animals, vehicles, etc. |
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| vigorously active and aggressive, esp. in support of a cause; any mode of procedure for gaining advantage or success. |
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| The rights belonging to an individual by virtue of citizenship, especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and by subsequent acts of Congress, including civil liberties, due process, equal protection of the laws, and freedom from discrimination. |
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constitutional law
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| a body of statutory and case law that is based on, concerns, or interprets a constitution |
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| any right that exists by virtue of natural law. |
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A law or body of laws that derives from nature and is believed to be binding upon human actions apart from or in conjunction with laws established by human authority; a principle or body of laws considered as derived from nature, right reason, or religion and as ethically binding in human society.
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| A doctrine by which a numerical majority of an organized group holds the power to make decisions binding on all in the group. |
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| confidence in the truth or existence of something not immediately susceptible to rigorous proof; confidence; faith; trust |
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| the ideals, customs, institutions, etc., of a society toward which the people of the group have an affective regard. These values may be positive, as cleanliness, freedom, or education, or negative, as cruelty, crime, or blasphemy. |
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