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• Jurors
  ...criminal cases there are usually 12 jurors, although Scotland uses 15. In civil cases many trials require only six. ...the jury of local men, and the royal justices ushered in the era of the [[English Common Law]]. Sheriffs prepared cases for trial and found jurors with relev
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• Communism
  ...early 1990s. Despite many communist successes like the victorious Vietnam War (1959-1975) or the first human spaceflight (1961), the communist regimes we ...ivil right to vote for all men including the unprivileged. Among the early English social reformers was [[Robert Owen]], the founder of cooperative movement a
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• Constitution
  ...of the clergy and the nobility. This idea was extended and refined by the English barony when they forced [[John of England|John]] to sign the ''[[Magna Car This provision became the cornerstone of English liberty after that point. The [[social contract]] in the original case was
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• History
  ...oks?id=wrACAAAAIAAJ The Century dictionary; an encyclopedic lexicon of the English language]. New York: The Century Co. Page [https://books.google.com/books?i ...y]]. In German, French, and indeed, most languages of the world other than English, this distinction was never made, and the same word is used to mean both "h
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• Civilization
  ...on'' can also refer to society as a whole. To nineteenth-century [[England|English]] [[anthropology|anthropologist]] [[Edward Burnett Tylor]], for example, ci ...rbarian|barbarism]]"; as contrasted to ''civility'', meaning politeness or civil virtue — until the 18th century.
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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, ...nfucius]] ([https://classics.mit.edu/Confucius/analects.html] available in English here])
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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 English Church in British North America (1497-1775)===
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• Surveillance
  However, many civil rights and [[privacy]] groups such as the [https://www.eff.org|Electronic F ...ntify who they have been with—has been argued by some to present a risk to civil liberties.[33]
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• Socialism
  The English word ''socialism'' (1839) derives from the French ''socialisme'' (1832), th ...rally and aurally close to the Papist Roman Catholic communion rite, hence English atheists denoted themselves ''socialists''.
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• Euthanasia
  English Common Law from the 1300s until the middle of the last century made suicide ...states following suit over a period of several years.[15] After the Civil War, voluntary euthanasia was promoted by advocates, including some doctors.[16
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• Secularism
  ...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 ...ded by God. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pg. 147 ("But with the Second World War just ahead, secularism fo the antireligious type was soon to disappear from
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• Irony
  [[Henry Watson Fowler]], in ''The King's English'', says “any definition of irony—though hundreds might be given, and ve ...World War I" was originally called "The War to End All Wars" or "The Great War". Historical irony is therefore a subset of [[cosmic]] irony, but one in wh
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• Languages and Literature
  ...e. An example of a widely used controlled natural language is [[Simplified English]], which was originally developed for [[aerospace]] industry maintenance ma * Crystal, David (2001). ''The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language.'' Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
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• Discipline
  ...l in military affairs generally; military skill and experience; the art of war. (Cf. sense 2.) ...ine and ordering their war. 1659 B. HARRIS Parival's Iron Age 41 School of war..where all the Martiall Spirits resorted, to learn Discipline, and to put i
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• Conservatism
  ...demands of the creditor of the state, that the first and original faith of civil society is pledged. The claim of the citizen is prior in time, paramount in ...f Burke remain a central tenet of conservative thinking across much of the English-speaking world. As one [[Australia]]n scholar argues, "For Edmund Burke and
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• 2020-06-29-New Era Transition 94
  JT: I have a listener who is on the call, but for whom English is a second language, and he asks: As it is known, there are many alternati ...everyday part of the life of citizens and that eventually the processes of civil society begin to collapse upon themselves. As you can see or use that asses
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• 2004-02-08-Overcoming Difficulty
  ...of what those words [[represent]] to you, our mortal students. Nor are we English nor Spanish, but through the [[methods]] afforded us through the gracious m ...own, where you have day and night, [[love]] and [[hate]], [[peace]] and [[war]], [[male]] and [[female]] – not that these are so much depicting contras
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• Causality
  ...y one's own existence, is the first step toward becoming the "Übermensch" (English: "overman" or "superman") that [[Nietzsche]] speaks of extensively in his p ...mporal order. Confusion commonly arises since many different statements in English may be presented using "If ..., then ..." form (and, arguably, because this
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• Buckminster Fuller
  ...rer in the meat-packing industry. He also served in the U.S. Navy in World War I, as a shipboard [[radio]] operator, as an editor of a publication, and as ...shness," he declared, "is unnecessary and hence-forth unrationalizable.... War is obsolete."
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• Thomas Jefferson
  ...inning in June 1775, soon after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. When Congress began considering a resolution of independence in June 1776, ...ca: The Last Best Hope (Volume I): From the Age of Discovery to a World at War ISBN 1-59555-055-0) Public disapproval of his performance delayed his futur
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