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  2. Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The Tenth Amendment (Amendment X) to the United States Constitution, a part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791. [1] It expresses the principle of federalism, also known as states' rights, by stating that the federal government has only those powers delegated to it by the Constitution, and that all other powers not forbidden to the states by the Constitution are reserved ...

  3. Federalist No. 10 - Wikipedia

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    Federalist No. 10. Federalist No. 10 is an essay written by James Madison as the tenth of The Federalist Papers, a series of essays initiated by Alexander Hamilton arguing for the ratification of the United States Constitution. It was first published in The Daily Advertiser (New York) on November 22, 1787, under the name "Publius".

  4. Federalist No. 51 - Wikipedia

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    Federalist No. 51, titled: "The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments", is an essay by James Madison with Alexander Hamilton [1], the fifty-first of The Federalist Papers. This document was first published by The New York Packet on February 8, 1788, under the pseudonym Publius ...

  5. All men are created equal - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The quotation " all men are created equal " is found in the United States Declaration of Independence. The final form of the sentence was stylized by Benjamin Franklin, and penned by Thomas Jefferson during the beginning of the Revolutionary War in 1776. [1] It reads: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created ...

  6. Power of 10 - Wikipedia

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    Power of 10. Visualisation of powers of 10 from one to 1 trillion. A power of 10 is any of the integer powers of the number ten; in other words, ten multiplied by itself a certain number of times (when the power is a positive integer). By definition, the number one is a power (the zeroth power) of ten. The first few non-negative powers of ten ...

  7. The 48 Laws of Power - Wikipedia

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    Dewey Decimal. 303.3 21. LC Class. BD438 .G74 1998. Followed by. The Art of Seduction. The 48 Laws of Power (1998) is a self-help book by American author Robert Greene. [1] The book is a New York Times bestseller, [2][3] selling over 1.3 million copies in the United States. [citation needed]

  8. Article One of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    Article One of the Constitution of the United States establishes the legislative branch of the federal government, the United States Congress. Under Article One, Congress is a bicameral legislature consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate. [1]: 73 Article One grants Congress various enumerated powers and the ability to pass ...

  9. Separation of powers under the United States Constitution

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    Separation of powers is a political doctrine originating in the writings of Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu in The Spirit of the Laws, in which he argued for a constitutional government with three separate branches, each of which would have defined abilities to check the powers of the others. This philosophy heavily influenced the ...