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  2. Political freedom - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Political freedom (also known as political autonomy or political agency) is a central concept in history and political thought and one of the most important features of democratic societies. [1] Political freedom has been described as freedom from oppression [2] or coercion, [3] the absence of disabling conditions for an individual and ...

  3. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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    This article lists forms of government and political systems, which are not mutually exclusive, and often have much overlap.. According to Yale professor Juan José Linz there are three main types of political systems today: democracies, totalitarian regimes and, sitting between these two, authoritarian regimes with hybrid regimes.

  4. Campaign finance in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The key factor is whether an ad uses words like or similar to "vote for" or not. Most of such donations received by state party committees are then sent to the national party headquarters to spend as they please, including on political campaigns by candidates. Critics call this a legalized form of political "money laundering".

  5. The origins of 20 political words and terms

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    Founding fathers. While the term "founding fathers" may seem to predate American politics, it was only invoked for the first time in 1916 by then-Sen. Warren G. Harding during the Republican ...

  6. Chuck Todd: When words lose meaning in politics

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    The political world has diluted the meanings of words and phrases so effectively (and, in some cases, done a full gaslight on phrases like “fake news”) that it has blunted the impact of some ...

  7. Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia

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    Writing and publication Idea. The Orwell Archive at University College London contains undated notes about ideas that evolved into Nineteen Eighty-Four.The notebooks have been deemed "unlikely to have been completed later than January 1944", and "there is a strong suspicion that some of the material in them dates back to the early part of the war".

  8. United States free speech exceptions - Wikipedia

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    United States free speech exceptions. The Bill of Rights in the National Archives. In the United States, some categories of speech are not protected by the First Amendment. According to the Supreme Court of the United States, the U.S. Constitution protects free speech while allowing limitations on certain categories of speech. [1]

  9. Social issues in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Housing is one of the major problems many developing cities are facing today. Migrants who cannot afford proper housing are forced to build temporary housing without proper utilities. These settlements are known as favelas. With a population of 12.7 million people, Rio de Janeiro is the second largest city in Brazil.