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  2. Tractatus Theologico-Politicus - Wikipedia

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    The truly human life is only possible in an organised community, that is, a state or commonwealth. The state ensures security of life, limb and property; it brings within reach of every individual many necessaries of life which he could not produce by himself; and it sets free sufficient time and energy for the higher development of human powers.

  3. Right to personal identity - Wikipedia

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    Article 29 also protects the right to develop one's personality: "[e]veryone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible." Manuc explains that personality rights can be defined as those expressing the quintessence of the human person, and are intrinsic to being human. [15]

  4. Government - Wikipedia

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    A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as

  5. Natural person - Wikipedia

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    In jurisprudence, a natural person (also physical person in some Commonwealth countries, or natural entity) is a person (in legal meaning, i.e., one who has its own legal personality) that is an individual human being, distinguished from the broader category of a legal person, which may be a private (i.e., business entity or non-governmental organization) or public (i.e., government) organization.

  6. Beginning of human personhood - Wikipedia

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    Fertilization is the fusing of the gametes; a sperm cell and an ovum (egg cell) fuse to form a single-cell zygote.This is the beginning of the diploid phase of the human life cycle after two genetically unique haploid cells created via meiosis and chromosomal translocation combine their DNA and begin to develop into a multi-cellular organism.

  7. Democracy - Wikipedia

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    Democratic assemblies are as old as the human species and are found throughout human history, [39] but up until the nineteenth century, major political figures have largely opposed democracy. [40] Republican theorists linked democracy to small size: as political units grew in size, the likelihood increased that the government would turn despotic.

  8. Power (social and political) - Wikipedia

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    A person may be admired because of a specific personal trait, and this admiration creates the opportunity for interpersonal influence. Here, the person under power desires to identify with these personal qualities and gains satisfaction from being an accepted follower. Nationalism and patriotism count towards an intangible sort of referent ...

  9. Individual - Wikipedia

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    In biology, the question of the individual is related to the definition of an organism, which is an important question in biology and the philosophy of biology, despite there having been little work devoted explicitly to this question. [3] An individual organism is not the only kind of individual that is considered as a "unit of selection". [3]