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  2. Necessity defense (New York) - Wikipedia

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    The Penal Law of the State of New York combines justification and necessity into a single article, Article 35. "Defense of Justification" comprises sections 35.05 through 35.30 of the Penal Law. The general provision relating to necessity, section 35.05, provides: § 35.05 Justification; generally.

  3. Democracy - Wikipedia

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    Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." [ 299 ] Critics of democracy have often tried to highlight democracy's inconsistencies, paradoxes , and limits by contrasting it with other forms of government, such as epistocracy or lottocracy .

  4. History of Christian thought on persecution and tolerance

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    [19]: 12 Punitive supersessionism is the 'hard' form of supersessionism, and is seen as punishment from God. [19]: 13 Economic supersessionism is a moderate form concerning God's economy: His plan in history to transfer the role of the "people of God" from an ethnic group to a universal group.

  5. International law - Wikipedia

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    Bound volumes of the American Journal of International Law at the University of Münster, Germany. International law, also known as public international law and the law of nations, is the set of rules, norms, legal customs and standards that states and other actors feel an obligation to obey in their mutual relations and generally do obey.

  6. Martin Luther - Wikipedia

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    From 1525 to 1529, he established a supervisory church body, laid down a new form of worship service, and wrote a clear summary of the new faith in the form of two catechisms. [121] To avoid confusing or upsetting the people, Luther avoided extreme change. He also did not wish to replace one controlling system with another.

  7. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - Wikipedia

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    In November 2018, on the first day of congressional orientation, Ocasio-Cortez participated in a climate change protest outside the office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. [151] Also that month, she backed Pelosi's bid to be Speaker of the House once the Democratic Party reclaimed the majority on the condition that Pelosi "remains the ...

  8. Hinduism - Wikipedia

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    The major kinds, according to McDaniel are Folk Hinduism, based on local traditions and cults of local deities and is the oldest, non-literate system; Vedic Hinduism based on the earliest layers of the Vedas, traceable to the 2nd millennium BCE; Vedantic Hinduism based on the philosophy of the Upanishads, including Advaita Vedanta, emphasising ...

  9. Neoconservatism - Wikipedia

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    Kirkpatrick concluded that while the United States should encourage liberalization and democracy in autocratic countries, it should not do so when the government risks violent overthrow and should expect gradual change rather than immediate transformation. [47]