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Belvedere Torso
Belvedere Torso. A marble fragment showing the torso and upper legs of a powerful male figure seated on a rock, now in the Vatican Museums and named after the Belvedere Court in the Vatican in which it was once displayed. It is signed by a Greek sculptor ‘Apollonius, son of Nestor,... Read more |
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES, seven joint debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas during the 1858 senatorial election campaign in Illinois. The debates marked the culmination of a political rivalry that had its origin twenty-five years before, when both were... Read more |
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Presidential Power
P RESIDENTIALP OWER Alexander DeConde From the founding of the United States to the present, concerned citizens have debated the breadth of presidential power in foreign affairs. The Founders, from their reading of European history and their ... Read more |
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Autosuggestion
AUTOSUGGESTION Autosuggestion was popularized by the French "Nancy school." By the first half of the nineteenth century, methods of self-medication and self-healing known as "automagnetization" had reinforced (or supplanted) various forms of "magnetism." At the end of the century, a theoretical... Read more |
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Federal Reserve Act
Federal Reserve Act (1913) Andreas Lehnert The question of how to regulate financial affairs was one of the earliest and most enduring problems facing the American republic. Congress formally resolved the issue only in 1913 with the passage of the Federal Reserve Act (38 Stat. 251), which created,... Read more |
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Advection (Earth sciences)
Advection Earth's atmosphere is a dynamic sea of gases in constant motion and Earth's oceans contain currents that move water across the globe. Advection is a lateral or horizontal transfer of mass, heat, or other property. Accordingly, winds that blow across Earth's surface represent... Read more |
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Power Elite
Power Elite BIBLIOGRAPHY In his 1956 work of the same name, American sociologist C. Wright Mills coined the term power elite to characterize a new coalition of ruling groups that rose to dominance in the post-World War II United States. Mills rejected the conventional view of a dispersed,... Read more |
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Presidency
PRESIDENCY The presidency is the most powerful formal political institution in post-communist Russia. Except for the ceremonial title given to the head of the USSR Supreme Soviet, the Soviet Union did not have a presidency until its waning years, although the adoption of one was discussed under... Read more |
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Higher Law
Higher Law Throughout the Supreme Court's history, higher‐law concepts have played a role in debate over the limits of governmental power. Higher law, understood as an unwritten law binding government or providing a standard by which to judge positive (i.e., written) law, was a familiar if... Read more |
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