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  2. Meritocracy - Wikipedia

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    Meritocracy (merit, from Latin mereō, and -cracy, from Ancient Greek κράτος kratos 'strength, power') is the notion of a political system in which economic goods or political power are vested in individual people based on ability and talent, rather than wealth or social class. [1]

  3. Merit system - Wikipedia

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    Rank was determined by merit, through the civil service examinations, and education became the key for social mobility. [2] After the fall of the Han Dynasty, the nine-rank system was established during the Three Kingdoms period. The concept of a merit system spread from China to British India during the 17th century, and then into continental ...

  4. Merit - Wikipedia

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    Merit Hertzman-Ericson (1911–1998), Swedish psychologist and author; Merit Janow, American professor; Merit or Meryt, an ancient Egyptian feminine name, from the Egyptian language meaning "beloved": Merit, wife of the ancient Egyptian royal scribe and architect Kha; interred with her husband in the tomb of Kha and Merit

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    Emeritus (past participle of Latin emerere, meaning 'complete one's service') is a compound of the Latin prefix e-(variant of ex-) meaning 'out of, from' and merere (source of 'merit') meaning 'to serve, earn'. The word is attested since the early 17th century with the meaning 'having served out one's time, having done sufficient service'.

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  7. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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    Term Description Examples Autocracy: Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).

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  9. Virtue - Wikipedia

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    Virtue, as seen in opposition to sin, is termed thawāb (spiritual merit or reward) but there are other Islamic terms to describe virtue such as faḍl ("bounty"), taqwa ("piety"), and ṣalāḥ ("righteousness"). According to Muslim beliefs, God will forgive individual sins but the bad treatment of people and injustice toward others can only ...