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  2. A Separate Peace - Wikipedia

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    A Separate Peace is a coming-of-age novel by John Knowles, published in 1959. Based on his earlier short story "Phineas", published in the May 1956 issue of Cosmopolitan , it was Knowles's first published novel and became his best-known work.

  3. Peace, order, and good government - Wikipedia

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    Lord Justice Laws, ordering the British government to allow the inhabitants to return to their former homes, condemned the depopulation of the islands in the name of "peace, order and good government" with the words: It was Tacitus who said: "They make a desert and call it peace – Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant (Agricola 30). He meant it ...

  4. Separation of powers under the United States Constitution

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    The other explains that Congress has the implied powers to implement the express powers written in the Constitution to create a functional national government. All three branches of the US government have certain powers and those powers relate to the other branches of government. One of these powers is called the express powers.

  5. Separation of powers - Wikipedia

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    By the second, he makes peace or war, sends or receives embassies, establishes public security, and provides against invasions. By the third, he punishes criminals or determines the disputes that arise between individuals. The latter we shall call the judiciary power, and the other simply the executive power of the state.

  6. AP United States History - Wikipedia

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    Section I part B includes three short-answer questions. The first two questions are required, but students choose between the third and fourth questions. Students are given a total of 95 minutes (55 for the multiple-choice section and 40 for three short-answer questions) to complete Section I.

  7. United States federal executive departments - Wikipedia

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    The United States federal executive departments are the principal units of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States.They are analogous to ministries common in parliamentary or semi-presidential systems but (the United States being a presidential system) they are led by a head of government who is also the head of state.

  8. Donald Trump has yet to arrive in Washington, but he is already confronting the limitations of his electoral mandate. Trump’s eleventh-hour attempt to blow up a carefully negotiated bill to keep ...

  9. Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The Tenth Amendment (Amendment X) to the United States Constitution, a part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791. [1] It expresses the principle of federalism, whereby the federal government and the individual states share power, by mutual agreement, with the federal government having the supremacy.