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George Washington was an American political leader, military general, statesman, and Founding Father of the United States, who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.

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François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of Christianity.

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Sir William Blackstone SL KC was an English jurist, judge and Tory politician of the eighteenth century. He is most noted for writing the Commentaries on the Laws of England.

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Belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.

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The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.

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Supreme power or authority.

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Any member of a group of citizen families who, in contrast with the plebeian class, formed a privileged class in early Rome.

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A system of government in which the president is constitutionally independent of the legislature.

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An organization which consists of a number of parties or groups united in an alliance or league.

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A small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.

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A british philosopher whose ideas on civil government greatly influenced the founders.

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Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher, considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. He said that all humans were naturally wicked and needed a strong ruler to keep them in order.

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Power to make laws.

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A political unit with the power to make and enforce laws over a group of people living within a clearly defined territory.

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Power involves the authority to interpret the laws and settle disputes between members of society.

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The power to carry out, enforce, and administer the law.

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A kind of government system in which a single power.

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Form of government in which one person controls most of the governing decisions.

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A system in which the powers of the executive and legislative branches are intertwined.

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A system of government that is largely an American invention.