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Politics

1) Social relations involving authority or power. 2) The art or science of governing.

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plutocracy

Politics; Political Science

Government by the wealthy; or a group of wealthy people who control or influence a government.

pocket veto

Politics; Political Science

The process by which the U.S. president may veto a bill by not signing it. A bill normally becomes law ten days (excluding Sundays) after it is submitted to the president for ...

point of order

Politics; Political Science

A question raised at a formal meeting about whether the action being taken is within agreed rules about how business is to be conducted.

polarization

Politics; Political Science

Showing two contrary directions and tendencies. In political speech, the term has come to refer to the process by which two sides in a dispute or a political issue move steadily ...

police power

Politics; Political Science

The power of a state to regulate the actions of individuals and society as a whole in order to protect and promote the general welfare, including public health, safety and morals.

police state

Politics; Political Science

A state in which the police, particularly the secret police, have wide and arbitrary power to survey, harass and intimidate the citizenry, who are denied their civil rights and ...