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  2. Electoral district - Wikipedia

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    An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other polity) created to provide its population with representation in the larger state's legislature. That body, or the state's constitution or a body established ...

  3. Kerosene - Wikipedia

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    Kerosene. A kerosene bottle, containing blue-dyed kerosene. Kerosene, or paraffin, is a combustible hydrocarbon liquid which is derived from petroleum. It is widely used as a fuel in aviation as well as households. Its name derives from κηρός (kērós) meaning "wax", and was registered as a trademark by Nova Scotia geologist and inventor ...

  4. Policy - Wikipedia

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    Policy is a deliberate system of guidelines to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes. A policy is a statement of intent and is implemented as a procedure or protocol. Policies are generally adopted by a governance body within an organization. Policies can assist in both subjective and objective decision making.

  5. Syntax - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In linguistics, syntax (/ ˈsɪntæks / SIN-taks) [1][2] is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure (constituency), [3] agreement, the nature of crosslinguistic variation, and the ...

  6. United States Congress and citizens - Wikipedia

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    Constituents request assistance with particular problems or ask questions. Members of Congress want to leave a positive impression on the constituent, rather than leave them disgruntled. Thus, their offices will often be responsive, and go out of their way to help steer the citizen through the intricacies of the bureaucracy.

  7. Constitution of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States. [ 3 ] It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, on March 4, 1789. Originally including seven articles, the Constitution delineates the frame of the federal government.

  8. Phrase structure rules - Wikipedia

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    Phrase structure rules. Phrase structure rules are a type of rewrite rule used to describe a given language's syntax and are closely associated with the early stages of transformational grammar, proposed by Noam Chomsky in 1957. [1] They are used to break down a natural language sentence into its constituent parts, also known as syntactic ...

  9. Constituent - Wikipedia

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    An electoral district or constituency. Constituent, an individual citizen or voter represented by a politician within an electoral district, state, community, or organization. Advocacy group or constituency. Constituent assembly. Constituent state (territory, country, etc.): an administrative division of a larger state.