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Language: English Studies in English

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Government

A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, often a state.

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Politics

Politics (from Greek: πολιτικά, translit. Politiká, meaning "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions that apply to members of a group.

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Government

The government of the Union, then, is emphatically and truly a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them and for their benefit.

Chief Justice John Marshall, McCulloch vs. Maryland, 4 Wheaton 316 (1819)

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Politics

One cannot look too closely at and weigh in too golden scales the acts of men hot in their political excitement.

Hawkins, J., Ex parte Castioni (1890), 60 L. J. Rep. (N. S.) Mag. Cas. 33.

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Politics

Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.

William Dwight Whitney, Language and the Study of Language: Twelve Lectures on the Principles of Linguistic Science (1868), p. 150.

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