... governmental bureaucracy. 2. A system of terror by the police and secret police which is directed against real and imagined enemies of the regime. 3. A monopolistic control of the mass media. 4. A near monopoly of weapons. 5. Central control of the economy. 6. An elaborate ideology which covers all aspects of man's existence and which contains a powerful chiliastic [messianic or religious] moment. The final ... perceived partiality towards blacks. The KKK wore special dress, engaged in bizarre rituals designed to underline their membership of a distinctive community, and murdered blacks ...

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... opportunities to be in charge of everything. The relations between Bismarck and the Center party continued to improve, and the chancellor turned his consideration near the socialists, who had improved their power in the Reichstag, mostly after the fusion of the LaSalle and Marxian socialists. At first, Bismarck ... met the socialist opposition with particularly cruel procedures. An antisocialist law approved in 1878 banned the spread of socialist literature, it gave the police power to break up socialist meetings, and put the trial and ... his power to help the decreasing liberal power i...

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... hoods and riding on robed horses with muted hooves, these men would also resort to more violent means in order to achieve their goals. Lynch law became their prime method of choice for what they saw as law enforcement. The issue of labor force in the agricultural South created another topic of dispute for the KKK. The Klan was an advocate of ... be only partially successful. With pockets of Klan activity in existence, the government passed an anti-Klan prohibiting the existence of such domestic terrorists and allowing the use of martial law in their suppression. This did away with the p...

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Woodrow Thomas Wilson, twenty-eighth president of the United States, might have suffered from dyslexia. He never could read easily, but developed a strong power of concentration and a near-photographic memory. By 1912 times were good for most Americans. Farmers were enjoying their most prosperous period in living memory, the cost of living rose slightly, unemployment was lower than ... persuaded Congress to repeal the Panama Tolls Act, which had allowed American ships to use the Panama Canal toll-free when sailing between U.S. coastal ports. Wilson believed that this new law violated a treat...

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... . Hitler denounces making economics the sole content of people's lives and the State's main focus. According to him, when the State makes economics its main focus, the State's collapse is near. Thus, the State is a national organism and not an economic organization. To a fascist, the State can only function properly if there is no real separation between individuals. All individuals must ... resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. " Thoreau denounces laws and regulations. He states that law...

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... Nicholas II, waged war on Japan in 1904. The physically large, yet ill-equipped and poorly lead Russian defense forces were obliterated by the Japanese in under a year. This caused a near-revolution and lead to the Tsar's decision to release the "October Manifesto", a basic constitution which granted a nationally elected parliament - the Duma. While in theory the Duma would make Russia a constitutional ... one of the lines in the document stated that "The Emperor approves laws; and without his approval no legislative measure can become law." This meant that everything the Duma decided o...

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... allows one to see how Canada makes its own decisions, whether or not to take part in Britain's war, representing its capability to be an independent nation. This affair was near the beginning of Canada's road to independence. Seeing Canada refuse Britain, who was their head of state, to help fight a battle, represents their ability to self-govern themselves, making Canada ... equal statuses, and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations. This is one of the most important documents in Canadian history in regards to gaining independence. The law affirming these s...

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Was the collapse of the Weimar Republic inevitable? Introduction: The Weimar Republic was created after World War I with Germany in a state of near-anarchy. It was created in the aftermath of the war to govern a defeated Germany. The Social Democratic Party was the leading party in the creation of the Weimar Republic. It ... the problem became even worse when in 1923 French and Belgian troops invaded the Ruhr which was a heavy industrial area for Germany, the French and Belgians were perfectly within the law to do this under the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles since Germany had been l...

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... popular support for it at home. The Peace Ballot' launched by the National Declaration Committee, had a profound effect on the presentational politics of British politicians, coming as it did so near to election time. However the degree to which this actually translated to a commitment to going to war with Italy over Abyssinia or with Japan over Manchuria, was * by other considerations ... a policy of isolation, and France was still weak, while all the other main international players were those following aggressive paths. As Parker argues far from strengthening a British defence of int...

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... of goods. Additionally, other special state corporations were established, such as the Supreme War Office. Directed labour was also introduced, and this included the implementation of the Patriotic Auxillary Service Law, under which men aged 17-60 were liable to be called for labour service. The German government also was able to effeciently organise the mobilisation of women to replace lost ... -war sentiments due a decline in living standards. A consequence of this was that Britain was able to gain an advantage and this is exemplified in its production and use of tanks near the end of ...

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... a sense of mortality exists, with his works often beginning and ending with death. The novel begins in the present and in the prologo, the narrator is visiting the Etruscan tombs near Rome and as he is thinking of this lost civilisation he is reminded of the Finzi-Contini. This archaeological reference also suggests the digging into the past through the reconstruction ... òl is symbolic of her need to keep something to herself, some new individualism so as to be different from everyone. It could also be an unconscious rebellion against the law against dialect and another form of the Fin...

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