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  2. Theocracy - Wikipedia

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    Josephus offered the term theocracy to describe this polity in which a god was sovereign and the god's word was law. [ 4 ] Josephus' definition was widely accepted until the Enlightenment era, when the term took on negative connotations and was barely salvaged by Hegel 's commentary. [ 5 ]

  3. Theodemocracy - Wikipedia

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    However, later critics labeled the town a "theocracy," mostly because of the position of many church leaders, including Smith, as elected city officials. That was a serious charge, as in Jacksonian America, anyone accused of theocratic rule was immediately suspect and deemed an antirepublican threat to the country. Suspicions about Mormon rule ...

  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. Constitutional theocracy - Wikipedia

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    The phrase constitutional theocracy describes a form of elected government in which one single religion is granted an authoritative central role in the legal and political system. In contrast to a pure theocracy , power resides in lay political figures operating within the bounds of a constitution, rather than in the religious leadership.

  6. How The World Bank Broke Its Promise to Protect the Poor

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    The payments that Lagos authorities offered for larger demolished structures, for example, were 31 percent lower than what the World Bank’s own consultants said they were worth. “It was like David and Goliath. There were these little people fighting against this giant,” Chapman said. The bank “really left vulnerable people on their own.”

  7. Trump stokes alarm about view of presidential power with ...

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    There are only a few examples in America's 250-year history where presidents have disregarded the laws or the courts. Former President Abraham Lincoln, who Trump has repeatedly compared himself to ...

  8. Here's why the US dollar is 'priced to perfection' — and why ...

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    The latest example: Data released on Tuesday showed prices paid in the services sector during the month of December jumped to a nearly two-year high, suggesting the inflation fight is not yet ...

  9. Theonomy - Wikipedia

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    Theonomy (from Greek theos "God" and nomos "law") is a hypothetical Christian form of government in which divine law governs societies. [1] Theonomists hold that societies should observe divine law, particularly the Old Testament’s judicial laws. [2]