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  2. Bodily integrity - Wikipedia

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    Bodily integrity is the inviolability of the physical body and emphasizes the importance of personal autonomy, self-ownership, and self-determination of human beings over their own bodies. In the field of human rights , violation of the bodily integrity of another is regarded as an unethical infringement, intrusive, and possibly criminal.

  3. Habeas corpus - Wikipedia

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    Habeas corpus (/ ˈ h eɪ b i ə s ˈ k ɔːr p ə s / ⓘ; from Medieval Latin, lit. ' you should have the body ') [1] is an equitable remedy [2] by which a report can be made to a court alleging the unlawful detention or imprisonment of an individual, and requesting that the court order the individual's custodian (usually a prison official) to bring the prisoner to court, to determine ...

  4. Constitution type - Wikipedia

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    Constitution type or body type can refer to a number of attempts to classify human body shapes: Humours (Ayurveda) Somatotype of William Herbert Sheldon; Paul Carus's character typology; Ernst Kretschmer's character typology; Elliot Abravanel's glandular metabolism typology; Sasang typology by Je-Ma Lee; Bertil Lundman's racial classification ...

  5. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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    In American English, the definition of a republic can also refer specifically to a government in which elected individuals represent the citizen body, also known as a representative democracy (a democratic republic) and exercise power according to the rule of law (a constitutional republic).

  6. Constitution - Wikipedia

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    Constitution of the Year XII (First French Republic) Constitution of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1848. A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organization or other type of entity, and commonly determines how that entity is to be governed. [1]

  7. Dosha - Wikipedia

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    Pitta is the normal Sanskrit word meaning "bile". [12] It is etymologically related to the Sanskrit word pīta "yellow". Kapha is the watery element. It is a combination of earth and water. It is characterized by heaviness, coldness, tenderness, softness, slowness, lubrication, and the carrier of nutrients. It is the nourishing element of the body.

  8. Self-ownership - Wikipedia

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    Self-ownership, also known as sovereignty of the individual or individual sovereignty, is the concept of property in one's own person, expressed as the moral or natural right of a person to have bodily integrity and be the exclusive controller of one's own body and life.

  9. Government - Wikipedia

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    In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for determining policy. In many countries, the government has a kind of constitution, a statement of its governing principles and ...