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Launched. September 2022. Temu ( / ˈtiːmuː / TEE-moo) is an online marketplace operated by the Chinese e-commerce company PDD Holdings. [ 8][ 9] It offers heavily discounted consumer goods [ 10] which are mostly shipped to consumers directly from China. [ 11][ 12] Temu's business model has allowed it to become popular among consumers but has ...
FactCheck.org. FactCheck.org is a nonprofit [ 1] website that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics by providing original research on misinformation and hoaxes. [ 2] It is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and is funded ...
In political science, legitimacy is the right and acceptance of an authority, usually a governing law or a regime. Whereas authority denotes a specific position in an established government, the term legitimacy denotes a system of government—wherein government denotes "sphere of influence". An authority viewed as legitimate often has the ...
The justification of the state refers to the source of legitimate authority for the state or government. Typically, such a justification explains why the state should exist, and to some degree scopes the role of government – what a legitimate state should or should not be able to do. There is no single, universally accepted justification of ...
Limited government is closely associated with constitutions and constitutionalism; the United States Constitution of 1789 and the French Constitution of 1793 were both enacted in an effort to reaffirm limited government, although in different ways. [ 2] The U.S. Constitution achieved limited government through a separation of powers ...
Consent of the governed. In political philosophy, the phrase consent of the governed refers to the idea that a government 's legitimacy and moral right to use state power is justified and lawful only when consented to by the people or society over which that political power is exercised. This theory of consent is starkly contrasted with the ...
I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made ...
Constitutionalism of the United States has been defined as a complex of ideas, attitudes and patterns elaborating the principle that the authority of government derives from the people, and is limited by a body of fundamental law. These ideas, attitudes and patterns, according to one analyst, derive from "a dynamic political and historical ...