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  2. Propitiation - Wikipedia

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    The case for translating hilasterion as "expiation" instead of "propitiation" was put forward by British scholar C. H. Dodd in 1935 and at first gained wide support. . Scottish scholars Francis Davidson and G.T. Thompson, writing in The New Bible Commentary, first published in 1953, state that "The idea is not that of conciliation of an angry God by sinful humanity, but of expiation of sin by ...

  3. Trespass to chattels - Wikipedia

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    Trespass to chattels, also called trespass to personalty or trespass to personal property, is a tort whereby the infringing party has intentionally (or, in Australia, negligently) interfered with another person's lawful possession of a chattel (movable personal property).

  4. Monetary sovereignty - Wikipedia

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    Monetary sovereignty is the power of the state to exercise exclusive legal control over its currency, broadly defined, by exercise of the following powers: . Legal tender – the exclusive authority to designate the legal tender forms of payment.

  5. Private property - Wikipedia

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    Mises argued that a socialist system, which by definition would lack private property in the factors of production, would be unable to determine appropriate price valuations for the factors of production. According to Mises, this problem would make rational socialist calculation impossible. [14]

  6. Possession (law) - Wikipedia

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    In law, possession is the control a person intentionally exercises toward a thing. Like ownership, the possession of anything is commonly regulated under the property law of a jurisdiction.

  7. Liberalization - Wikipedia

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    Liberalization or liberalisation (British English) is a broad term that refers to the practice of making laws, systems, or opinions less severe, [1] usually in the sense of eliminating certain government regulations or restrictions.

  8. Colonization - Wikipedia

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    Colonization (British English: colonisation) is a process of establishing occupation of or control over foreign territories or peoples for the purpose of cultivation, exploitation, trade and possibly settlement, setting up coloniality and often colonies, commonly pursued and maintained by, but distinct from, imperialism, mercantilism, or colonialism.

  9. Public policy - Wikipedia

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    Dye himself admitted that his concept "discourages elaborate academic discussions of the definition of public policy - we say simply that public policy is whatever governments choose to do or not to do". [23] In an institutionalist view, the foundation of public policy is composed of national constitutional laws and regulations.