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Politics

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

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adjournment sine die

Politics; Political Science

Final adjournment of an annual or two- year session of Congress. Adjournment without fixing a definite day for reconvening; literally "adjournment without a day." A session can ...

adjournment to a day and time certain

Politics; Political Science

Adjournment under a motion or resolution that fixes the next time of meeting for one of both houses. Under the Constitution, neither house can adjourn for more than three days ...

adjudication

Politics; Political Science

The hearing and deciding of a legal case in a court of law.

administration

Politics; Political Science

The management of institutional or governmental affairs; a term for the government itself and its policy-makers; as in the Clinton administration; the period in which a government ...

administrative law

Politics; Political Science

The rules and regulations made and applied by federal regulatory agencies and commissions.

administrative system

Politics; Political Science

A twentieth-century system of ownership in which land is owned and managed by the state; found in China, the Soviet Union, and some parts of Africa and Latin America.