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  2. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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    [44] [45] A common simplified definition of a republic is a government where the head of state is not a monarch. [46] [47] Montesquieu included both democracies, where all the people have a share in rule, and aristocracies or oligarchies, where only some of the people rule, as republican forms of government. [48] These categories are not exclusive.

  3. Order book - Wikipedia

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    In securities trading, an order book contains the list of buy orders and the list of sell orders. For each entry it must keep among others, some means of identifying the party (even if this identification is obscured, as in a dark pool), the number of securities and the price that the buyer or seller are bidding/asking for the particular security.

  4. Executive order - Wikipedia

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    Example from 1948 Example from 2017. In the United States, an executive order is a directive by the president of the United States that manages operations of the federal government. [1] The legal or constitutional basis for executive orders has multiple sources.

  5. List of United States federal executive orders - Wikipedia

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    The current numbering system for executive orders was established by the U.S. State Department in 1907, when all of the orders in the department's archives were assigned chronological numbers. The first executive order to be assigned a number was Executive Order 1 , signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, but hundreds of unnumbered orders had been ...

  6. Independent agencies of the United States government

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    The degree to which the President has the power to use executive orders to set policy for independent executive agencies is disputed. [4] Many orders specifically exempt independent agencies, but some do not. [5] Executive Order 12866 has been a particular matter of controversy; it requires cost-benefit analysis for certain regulatory actions ...

  7. 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

  8. The Secretary of Defense and the Chain of Command, Explained

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    So when the proverbial 3 a.m. telephone call comes, the secretary of defense is the only one who can represent to the president the military’s best estimate of a given situation, then translate ...

  9. United States federal executive departments - Wikipedia

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    The United States federal executive departments are the principal units of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States.They are analogous to ministries common in parliamentary or semi-presidential systems but (the United States being a presidential system) they are led by a head of government who is also the head of state.