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  2. Authoritarianism - Wikipedia

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    Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in democracy, separation of powers, civil liberties, and the rule of law.

  3. Single source of truth - Wikipedia

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    In information science and information technology, single source of truth (SSOT) architecture, or single point of truth (SPOT) architecture, for information systems is the practice of structuring information models and associated data schemas such that every data element is mastered (or edited) in only one place, providing data normalization to ...

  4. Justification for the state - Wikipedia

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    In the period of the eighteenth century, usually called the Enlightenment, a new justification of the European state developed.Jean-Jacques Rousseau's social contract theory states that governments draw their power from the governed, its 'sovereign' people (usually a certain ethnic group, and the state's limits are legitimated theoretically as that people's lands, although that is often not ...

  5. Moral authority - Wikipedia

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    As such, moral authority necessitates the existence of and adherence to truth. Because truth does not change the principles of moral authority are immutable or unchangeable, although as applied to individual circumstances the dictates of moral authority for action may vary due to the exigencies of human life.

  6. Authority (textual criticism) - Wikipedia

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    The First Folio edition of Julius Caesar (1623) is the only authoritative source, since it is the copy-text of all future editions. A diary which is probably authentic has total authority. A text's authority is made more problematic when it has more than one author, when it falsely asserts itself to be someone else's work, or when it is revised ...

  7. Golden record (informatics) - Wikipedia

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    A golden copy is a consolidated data set, [2] and is supposed to provide a single source of truth and a "well-defined version of all the data entities in an organizational ecosystem". [3] Other names sometimes used include master source or master version. The term has been used in conjunction with data quality, master data management, and ...

  8. Legitimacy (political) - Wikipedia

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    Legitimacy is "a value whereby something or someone is recognized and accepted as right and proper". [6] In political science, legitimacy has traditionally been understood as the popular acceptance and recognition by the public of the authority of a governing régime, whereby authority has political power through consent and mutual understandings, not coercion.

  9. Sources of law - Wikipedia

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    Sources of law are the origins of laws, the binding rules that enable any state to govern its territory. The terminology was already used in Rome by Cicero as a metaphor referring to the "fountain" ("fons" in Latin) of law. Technically, anything that can create, change, or cancel any right or law is considered a source of law. [1]