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• Treaty
  ...ial [[meaning]] which is more restricted than its meaning in international law. ...an be held liable under international law. The central principle of treaty law is [[expressed]] in the maxim [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacta_sunt_ser
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• Unanimity
  ...er abstains. In the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union European Union], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Amsterdam Treaty of Amsterda ...s is not so in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(common_law) civil law] [[jury]] [[trials]].
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• Captal Punishment
  ...bited under [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_law international law]. ...Rights_of_the_European_Union Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union] prohibits the use of capital punishment. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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• Confederation
  ...stituting a new [[state]] on top of the member states. Under international law a confederation respects the [[sovereignty]] of its members and its constit A confederation in [[modern]] [[political]] terms is a permanent [[union]] of [[sovereign]] [[states]] for common [[action]] in relation to other st
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• Suffrage
  ...es. That new [[constitutions]] must be approved by referendum is [[natural law]]. ...the members of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union European Union]).[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffrage]
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• Sui Generis
  In [[law]], it is a term of [[art]] used to identify a legal classification that exi ...of the words is ambiguous or inherently unclear. For example, in criminal law, a statute might require a ''mens rea'' element of "unlawful and malicious"
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• Ambassador
  ...a'' of 1815 formalized the system of diplomatic rank under international [[law]]: ...es a seat of international organizations like the United Nations/ European Union. In some cases an Ambassador at Large may even be specifically assigned a r
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• Sovereignty
  ..., and most often the [[head of state]]. Thus the legal maxim, "there is no law without a sovereign." ...o be sovereign, which constitutes a true state of law: the [[letter of the law]] (if constitutionally correct) is applicable and enforceable, even when ag
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• Business
  ...American Industry Classification System, or NAICS. The equivalent European Union list is the NACE. ==Commercial law==
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• Vatican
  ...holic Church [https://www.intratext.com/IXT/ENG0017/_P19.HTM Code of Canon Law, canon 361], [https://www.intratext.com/IXT/LAT0758/_P7.HTM Code of Canons ...f the Catholic Church, then falls to the [[College of Cardinals]]. [[Canon law]] prohibits the College and the Camerlengo from introducing any innovations
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• World Government
  ...]] conception is rooted in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_history European history], particularly in the philosophy of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ ...nal work in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_law international law].
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• Roman law
  ...Corpus Juris Civilis]] of Emperor [[Justinian I]] (around [[530]]). Roman law as preserved in Justinian's codes became the basis of legal practice in the ...system than on the legal systems of the continent. The influence of Roman law is shown by the wealth of legal terminology, retained by all legal systems,
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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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• Adultery
  ...ultery has been grounds for [[divorce]] under fault-based divorce [[family law|laws]]. In some places, the method of punishment for adultery is [[stoning] ...https://usmilitary.about.com/od/justicelawlegislation/a/adultery.htm] This law has been applied to cases where both partners were members of the military,
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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 ...gy" shifted, however, as it was used (first in Greek and then in Latin) in European Christian thought in the Patristic period, the [[Middle Ages]] and [[Age of
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• Conservatism
  ...ake of some doctrine or theory, runs the risk of running afoul of the iron law of [[unintended consequence]]s. Burke advocates vigilance against the possi ...served the interests of the people involved. "As Burke had declared…this law ... encroached upon property rights... . To the eighteenth century Whig, no
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• Theocracy
  ...civil government.[3] Theocratic governments enact [[Theonomy|theonomic]] [[law]]s.
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• Communism
  ...of 1989, a total collapse of European communist regimes outside of Soviet Union, which dissolved itself two years later, in 1991. Some communist regimes ou ...ther undifferentiated in the time, concentrated in the most industrialized European countries. In France with its revolutionary [[tradition]] lived for example
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• Duality
  In recent years, after European Imperialism, the distinction between "eastern" and "western" philosophy has In the Emin Society (printed in their archives) Dualism is presented as the Law of Two, which is said to have seven levels:
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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 ...a counterpart to humans. In the reconstructed and hypothetical Proto-Indo-European, humans were described as ''chthonian'' ("earthly") as opposed to the deiti
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