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  2. Hindi–Urdu controversy - Wikipedia

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    The HindiUrdu controversy arose in 19th-century colonial India out of the debate over whether Modern Standard Hindi or Standard Urdu should be chosen as a national language. Hindi and Urdu are mutually intelligible as spoken languages, to the extent that they are sometimes considered to be dialects or registers of a single spoken language ...

  3. Voting - Wikipedia

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    In a voting system that uses multiple votes (Plurality block voting), the voter can vote for any subset of the running candidates. So, a voter might vote for Alice, Bob, and Charlie, rejecting Daniel and Emily. Approval voting uses such multiple votes. In a voting system that uses a ranked vote, the voter ranks the candidates in order of ...

  4. Civic engagement - Wikipedia

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    The study mentions 3 main themes: active, adaptive, and resilient leadership, learning for leadership and engagement for the greater good as the main reasons for the success of The Democracy Commitment (TDC) in the college. TDC is a national initiative that intends to help U.S community colleges educate their students for democracy. [14]

  5. Votebank - Wikipedia

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    A votebank (also spelled vote-bank or vote bank), in the political discourse of India and Pakistan, is a loyal bloc of voters from a single community, who consistently back a certain candidate or political formation in democratic elections.

  6. Urdu movement - Wikipedia

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    The phrase Zaban-e Urdu-e Mualla written in Urdū Lashkari Zaban ("Battalionese language") title in Nastaliq script.. The Urdu movement was a socio-political movement aimed at making Urdu (the standardized register of the Hindustani language), as the universal lingua-franca and symbol of the cultural and political identity of the Muslim communities of the Indian subcontinent during the British ...

  7. A key rule for democracy is to respect the voting choices of ...

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    But when doubts are raised about what in fact those interests are, and the political choices that arise from them, democracy suffers. Mark Joslyn is a professor of political science at the ...

  8. Opinion: No. 1 democratic principle is 'loyal opposition ...

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    Most important, people who love democracy must continue the struggle by making every effort to oppose injustice of any kind by exercising our freedoms of speech, press, assembly, and voting ...

  9. Suffrage - Wikipedia

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    People queuing and showing their identity document for voting in the 2014 Indian general election. Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote).