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DE JURE
by right.
Vide De facto.
RIGHT.
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DE FACTO
i. e. in deed.
A term used to denote a thing actually
done; a president of the United States de facto
is one in the exercise of the executive power,
and is distinguished from one, who being
legally entitled to such power is ejected
from it; the latter would be a president de jure ...
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DEED
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SOVEREIGN.
A chief ruler with supreme
power; one possessing sovereignty. (q. v.)
It is also applied to a king or other magistrate
with limited powers.
2. In the United States the sovereignty resides
in the body of the people.
Vide Rutherf. Inst. 282.
SOVEREIGN STATE.
One which governs
itself independently of any foreign power.
SOVEREIGNTY.
The union and exercise
of all human power possessed in a state;
it is a combination of all power; it is the power
to do everything in a state without accountability;
to make laws, to execute and to apply them:
to impose and collect taxes, and, levy, contributions;
to make war or peace; to form treaties of alliance
or of commerce with foreign nations, and the like.
Story on the Const. §207.
... Sovereignty resides in the body of the nation
and belongs to the people .
... 4. Strictly speaking, in our republican
forms of government, the absolute sovereignty
of the nation is in the people of the nation ...
SUPREMACY.
Sovereign dominion,
authority, and preeminence; the highest state.
In the United States, the supremacy resides
in the people ...
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ASSEMBLY.
The union of a number of persons in the same place.
There are several kinds of assemblies.
... 3. Popular assemblies are those where
the people meet to deliberate upon their rights;
these are guaranteed by the constitution.
Const. U. S. Amend. art. 1
Const. of Penn. art. 9, s. 20 ...
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INDEPENDENCE.
A state of perfect irresponsibility to any
superior; the United States are free and
independent of all earthly power.
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REPUBLIC.
A commonwealth; that form
of government in which the administration
of affairs is open to all the citizens.
In another sense, it signifies the state,
independently of its form of government.
1 Toull. n. 28, and n. 202, note.
In this sense, it is used by Ben Johnson.
Those that, by their deeds make it known,
whose dignity they do sustain; And life, state,
glory, all they gain, Count the Republic's,
not their own,
Vide Body Politic; Nation; State.
REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT.
A government in the republican form;
a government of the people; it is usually
put in opposition to a monarchical or
aristocratic government.
2. The fourth section of the fourth article
of the constitution, directs that
"the United States shall guaranty to every
state in the Union a republican
form of government."
The form of government is to be guarantied,
which supposes a form already established,
and this is the republican form of government
the United States have undertaken to protect.
See Story, Const. §1807.
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NATIVES.
All persons born within the jurisdiction
of the United States, are considered as
natives.
... 9. The constitution of the United States
declares that no person, except a natural
born citizen, or a citizen of the United States
at the time of the adoption of this constitution,
shall be eligible to the office of president
or vice-president of the United States.
Vide, generally, 2 Cranch, 280; 4
Cranch, 209; 1 Dal. 53; 20 John. 213; 2
Mass. 236, 244, note; 2 Pick. 394, n.;
2 Kent, 35.
NOBILITY.
An order of men in several countries to whom
privileges are granted at the expense of the rest
of the people.
2. The constitution of the United States provides
that no state shall " grant any title of nobility;
and no person can become a citizen ot'
the United States until he has renounced
all titles of nobility ...
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SEAL OF THE UNITED STATES
... On the base of the pyramid, the numerical
letters, MDCCLXXVI; and underneath,
the following motto, "Novus ordo sectorum."
Resolution of Congress, June 20, 1782;
Gordon's Dig. art. 207.
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ARISTOCRACY.
That form of government in which the
sovereign power is exercised by a small number
of persons to the exclusion of the remainder
of the people.
ARISTODEMOCRACY.
A form of government where the power is divided
between the great men of the nation and the people.
ANARCHY.
The absence of all political government;
by extension, it signifies confusion in government.
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SIMULATION, French law.
This word is derived from the Latin
simul, together.
It indicates, agreeably to its etymology,
the concert or agreement of two or more
persons to give to one thing the appearance
of another, for the purpose of fraud.
Merl. Repert. h. t.
2. With us such act might be punished by
indictment for a conspiracy; by avoiding the
pretended contract; or by action to recover
back the money or property which may have
been thus fraudulently obtained.
Bouvier's 1856 Law Dictionary
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See Also ;
Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
of the English Language
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