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Sallie Mae has been fully privatized and is no longer administered by the federal government. Foreign Economic Administration (FEA) Federal Theatre Project (FTP) General Accounting Office (GAO) Renamed "Government Accountability Office" in 2004; see #Legislative Branch, above. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Formed in 1953.
A historical sovereign state is a state that once existed, but has since been dissolved due to conflict, war, rebellion, annexation, or uprising. This page lists sovereign states, countries, nations, or empires that ceased to exist as political entities sometime after 1453, grouped geographically and by constitutional nature.
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).
[citation needed] In 2018, the government of Vanuatu started seeking international support to have West Papua added to the list in 2019. [33] [34] After the revocation of Norfolk Island's self-governing status by the Australian government in 2015, an island community group requested the UN add the island to the list of non-self-governing ...
The Constitution's main provisions include seven articles that define the basic framework of the federal government. Articles that have been amended still include the original text, although provisions repealed by amendments under Article V are usually bracketed or italicized to indicate they no longer apply.
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A sovereign state is usually required to have a permanent population, defined territory, a government not under another, and the capacity to interact with other sovereign states. [6] In actual practice, recognition or non-recognition by other states plays an important role in determining the status of a country.