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  2. State capacity - Wikipedia

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    State capacity may involve an expansion of the state's information-gathering abilities. In processes of state-building, states began implementing a regular and reliable census, the regular release of statistical yearbooks, and civil and population registers, as well as establishing a government agency tasked with processing statistical information.

  3. United States administrative law - Wikipedia

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    A rule in turn is "the whole or a part of an agency statement of general or particular applicability and future effect designed to implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy." The primary administrative law statutes and other laws that govern agency rule making include: [3] The Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. §§ 552 and 553

  4. Capacity (law) - Wikipedia

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    Legal capacity is a quality denoting either the legal aptitude of a person to have rights and liabilities (in this sense also called transaction capacity), or the personhood itself in regard to an entity other than a natural person (in this sense also called legal personality).

  5. Monopoly on violence - Wikipedia

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    While the monopoly on violence as the defining conception of the state was first described in sociology by Max Weber in his essay Politics as a Vocation (1919), [1] the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force is a core concept of modern public law, which goes back to French jurist and political philosopher Jean Bodin's 1576 work Les ...

  6. Test (law) - Wikipedia

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    In law, a test is a commonly applied method of evaluation used to resolve matters of jurisprudence. [1] In the context of a trial , a hearing , discovery , or other kinds of legal proceedings , the resolution of certain questions of fact or law may hinge on the application of one or more legal tests.

  7. Work Capability Assessment - Wikipedia

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    If the evidence shows that, on balance, according to the legally-defined criteria of the test, the claimant could not reasonably be expected to work or prepare for work, then a face-to-face assessment should not be necessary, the claimant should be recommended for the Support Group, and the higher rate of ESA usually granted.

  8. Competency evaluation (law) - Wikipedia

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    In the United States criminal justice system, a competency evaluation is an assessment of the ability of a defendant to understand and rationally participate in a court process. Competency was originally established by the Supreme Court of the United States as the evaluation of a defendant's competence to proceed to trial. [1]

  9. Test case (law) - Wikipedia

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    Test cases are brought to court with the intention of challenging, interpreting, or receiving clarification on a present law, regulation, or constitutional principle. [2] Government agencies sometimes bring test cases to confirm or expand their powers. [3] The outcome of test cases has a wide public significance as it shapes future rulings. [4]