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  2. Cape Independence Party - Wikipedia

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    The Cape Party stated that South Africa is signatory to numerous international treaties which safeguard property rights, Standing in front of the SAHRC offices in Cape Town, leader of the Cape Party, Jack Miller said: "There is another word for state expropriation without compensation; it is quite simply theft in the most criminal sense."

  3. Might makes right - Wikipedia

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    The related idea of "woe to the conquered" is stated by Livy, in which the similar Latin phrase "vae victis" is first recorded. [ 11 ] An early instance of the phrase in English is found in Thomas Carlyle 's 1839 essay Chartism : "Might and Right do differ frightfully from hour to hour; but give them centuries to try it in, they are found to be ...

  4. Effectiveness - Wikipedia

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    Other synonyms for effectiveness include: clout, capability, success, weight, performance. [13] Antonyms for effectiveness include: uselessness, ineffectiveness. [13] Simply stated, effective means achieving an effect, and efficient means getting a task or job done it with little waste.

  5. List of terms for administrative divisions - Wikipedia

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    state Land Germany (official term) state lieu-dit France: place name linn Estonia: town or city lugar Cape Verde: division of zona in Cape Verde Portugal: hamlet lungsod Philippines: city maakond Estonia: county մարզ Armenia: province or region mahoz Israel: district mancomunidad Spain: association of municipalities, commonwealth merindad

  6. Implied powers - Wikipedia

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    The state argued the United States Constitution did not explicitly grant Congress the power to establish banks. In 1819, the Court decided against the state of Maryland. Chief Justice Marshall argued that Congress had the right to establish the bank, as the Constitution grants to Congress certain implied powers beyond those explicitly stated.

  7. Antiphrasis - Wikipedia

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    Antiphrasis is the rhetorical device of saying the opposite of what is actually meant in such a way that it is obvious what the true intention is. [1]Some authors treat and use antiphrasis just as irony, euphemism or litotes.

  8. Northwest Ordinance - Wikipedia

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    Article 4 stated: "The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other States that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any ...

  9. Fuck - Wikipedia

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    Former British Secretary of State for Defence Denis Healey reported that the penultimate High Commissioner of Aden (1965–1967), Sir Richard Turnbull, stated that, "When the British Empire finally sinks beneath the waves of history, it will leave behind it only two memorials: one is the game of Association Football and the other is the ...