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  2. Private law - Wikipedia

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    Private law is that part of a legal system that governs interactions between individual persons. It is distinguished from public law, which deals with relationships between both natural and artificial persons (i.e., organizations) and the state, including regulatory statutes, penal law and other law that affects the public order.

  3. Independent agencies of the United States federal government

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    The Thrift Savings Plan is a tax-deferred defined contribution plan similar to a private sector 401(k) plan. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) enforces federal antitrust and consumer protection laws by investigating complaints against individual companies initiated by consumers, businesses, congressional inquiries, or reports in the media. The ...

  4. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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    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).

  5. Can the Private Sector Really Replace All Government ... - AOL

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    Because you had organizations saying 'pollution is bad'….And these companies did something about it. Government laws came as a consequence." Malice calls anarchism "libertarianism with principles."

  6. Privatization in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Privatization is the process of transferring ownership of a business, enterprise, agency, charity or public service from the public sector (the state or government) or common use to the private sector (businesses that operate for a private profit) or to private non-profit organizations.

  7. List of government-owned companies - Wikipedia

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    There are two types. Government-owned companies are legally normal companies but mainly or fully national owned. They are expected to be funded by their sales. A big customer might be the government or a government agency. The other type is government agencies which might also do activities competing with private owned companies.

  8. List of federal agencies in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The President of the United States is the chief executive of the federal government. He is in charge of executing federal laws and approving, or vetoing, new legislation passed by Congress. The President resides in the Executive Residence (EXR) maintained by the Office of Administration (OA).

  9. Private police - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, a private police force / department is a law enforcement agency that is either owned, operated, or otherwise controlled by a private entity (such as a corporation) or is a police agency whose primary function is to provide contract based security services to private entities. For example, in Washington, D.C., special ...