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  2. Privilege - Wikipedia

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    Privilege (law), a permission granted by law or other rules; Executive privilege, the claim by the President of the United States and other executives to immunity from legal process; Parliamentary privilege; Social privilege, special status or advantages conferred on certain groups at the expense of other groups, such as: White privilege; Male ...

  3. Social privilege - Wikipedia

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    Social privilege is an advantage or entitlement that benefits individuals belonging to certain groups, often to the detriment of others. Privileged groups can be advantaged based on social class, wealth, education, caste, age, height, skin color, physical fitness, nationality, geographic location, cultural differences, ethnic or racial category, gender, gender identity, neurodiversity ...

  4. Privilege (law) - Wikipedia

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    A privilege is a certain entitlement to immunity granted by the state or another authority to a restricted group, either by birth or on a conditional basis. Land-titles and taxi medallions are examples of transferable privilege – they can be revoked in certain circumstances.

  5. Privileges or Immunities Clause - Wikipedia

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    The primary author of the Privileges or Immunities Clause was Congressman John Bingham of Ohio. The common historical view is that Bingham's primary inspiration, at least for his initial prototype of this Clause, was the Privileges and Immunities Clause in Article Four of the United States Constitution, [1] [2] which provided that "The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges ...

  6. Executive privilege - Wikipedia

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    Executive privilege is the right of the president of the United States and other members of the executive branch to maintain confidential communications under certain circumstances within the executive branch and to resist some subpoenas and other oversight by the legislative and judicial branches of government in pursuit of particular information or personnel relating to those confidential ...

  7. Privileges and Immunities Clause - Wikipedia

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    In the federal circuit court case of Corfield v.Coryell, [1] Justice Bushrod Washington wrote in 1823 that the protections provided by the clause are confined to privileges and immunities which are, "in their nature, fundamental; which belong, of right, to the citizens of all free governments; and which have, at all times, been enjoyed by the citizens of the several states which compose this ...

  8. Privilege (film) - Wikipedia

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    Privilege is a 1967 British musical science fiction comedy-drama film directed by Peter Watkins and starring Paul Jones and Jean Shrimpton. [2] It was produced by John Heyman . Johnny Speight wrote the story, and Norman Bogner wrote the script.

  9. White privilege - Wikipedia

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    White privilege, or white skin privilege, is the societal privilege that benefits white people over non-white people in some societies, particularly if they are otherwise under the same social, political, or economic circumstances.