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  2. Woke - Wikipedia

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    During a debate in 2023 on the Law Society of Alberta's 2020 adoption of a rule which made certain Continuing Professional Development (CPD) training courses on Indigenous Canadian history obligatory, a lawyer from the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms wrote an op-ed arguing that the course was a form of "wokeness". [45] [46]

  3. A brief history of 'wokeness' - AOL

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    The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the slang term’s primary meaning as being “aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social ...

  4. Government procurement in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Government contracts are governed by federal common law, a body of law which is separate and distinct from the bodies of law applying to most businesses—the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) and the general law of contracts. The UCC applies to contracts for the purchase and sale of goods, and to contracts granting a security interest in property ...

  5. Strawman theory - Wikipedia

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    A "Legal name fraud" billboard in the United Kingdom. A variation of the strawman theory is found in the "legal name fraud" movement, which believes that birth certificates give the state legal ownership of a personal name and that refusing to use this name removes oneself from the state's authority and a court's jurisdiction. [17] [18]

  6. GSA Memo Orders Cancellation Or Justification Of ‘Non ... - AOL

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    In a Thursday letter acting GSA administrator Stephen Ehikian said the GSA “has taken the first steps in a Government-wide initiative to eliminate non-essential consulting contracts,” which ...

  7. ‘Radical Transparency’: Trump orders ‘wasteful’ federal ...

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    “The United States Government spends too much money on programs, contracts, and grants that do not promote the interests of the American people,” Trump's order said.

  8. Legal process (jurisprudence) - Wikipedia

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    "Institutional Settlement." As the name suggests, the legal process school was deeply interested in the processes by which law is made, and particularly in a federal system, how authority to answer various questions is distributed vertically (as between state and federal governments) and horizontally (as between branches of government) and how this impacts on the legitimacy of decisions.

  9. Explainer-What is DEI, a practice Trump is trying to dismantle?

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    Since taking office on Jan. 20, U.S. President Donald Trump has issued a series of executive orders aimed at dismantling diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the federal government and ...