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  2. List of Latin legal terms - Wikipedia

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    Refers to the power of the State to act as parent to a child when the legal parents are unable or unwilling. pari passu: on equal footing Equal ranking, equal priority (usually referring to creditors). partus sequitur ventrem: Offspring follows the belly Legal status of children of slaves is the same as their mother's. pendente lite

  3. The pen is mightier than the sword - Wikipedia

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    The words "pen" and "is" are suspiciously close together leading some scholars to speculate that the illustrator, True Williams, deliberately chose the narrow spacing as a subtle obscene prank. [31] It is the motto of the Alpha Xi Delta sorority. It is also the motto of Kaisei Academy in Tokyo, Japan.

  4. Possente spirto - Wikipedia

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    "Possente spirto, e formidabil nume" ("Mighty spirit and formidable god") is a key aria [1] from Act 3 of Claudio Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo, where Orpheus attempts to persuade Charon to allow him to pass into Hades and find Euridice.

  5. Powers of the president of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The power was available to all presidents and was regarded as a power inherent to the office. The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 was passed in response to large-scale power exercises by President Nixon. The act also created the Congressional Budget Office as a legislative counterpoint to the Office of Management and ...

  6. Glossary of Stoicism terms - Wikipedia

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    διαίρεσις: analysis, division into parts. Used when distinguishing what is subject to our power of choice from what is not. dikaiosyne δικαιοσύνε: justice, "consonant with the law and instrumental to a sense of duty" (Diogenes Laertius 7.98). One of the four virtues (justice, courage, temperance, wisdom/prudence). dogma

  7. Police power (United States constitutional law) - Wikipedia

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    The authority for use of police power under American Constitutional law has its roots in English and European common law traditions. [3] Even more fundamentally, use of police power draws on two Latin principles, sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas ("use that which is yours so as not to injure others"), and salus populi suprema lex esto ("the welfare of the people shall be the supreme law ...

  8. Remembering Toni Morrison through her most powerful words - AOL

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    Here are 13 more of Toni Morrison’s most powerful quotes. "If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it." - 1981 speech before the Ohio ...

  9. Glossary of spirituality terms - Wikipedia

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    Channelling: The act of attaining information (from a state of being in the present moment) from higher power or spirits and bringing it forth through writing, speaking, teaching or music. Creation: The term creation refers to the beginnings of humanity, earth, life, and the universe .