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  2. Inherent powers (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Courts in the United States are recognized to have inherent powers to ensure the proper disposition of cases before them. At the federal level these include the powers to punish contempt, to investigate and redress suspected frauds on the court, to bar a disruptive person from the courtroom, to transfer a case to a more appropriate venue (forum non conveniens), and to dismiss a case when the ...

  3. French and Raven's bases of power - Wikipedia

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    In a notable study of power conducted by social psychologists John R. P. French and Bertram Raven in 1959, power is divided into five separate and distinct forms. [1] [2] They identified those five bases of power as coercive, reward, legitimate, referent, and expert.

  4. Power (international relations) - Wikipedia

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    [1] [4] Power is an attribute of particular actors in their interactions, as well as a social process that constitutes the social identities and capacities of actors. [1] International relations scholars use the term polarity to describe the distribution of power in the international system. [2]

  5. Here is how to explain world economy with just two cows - AOL

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    Here is every type of economic system out there explained with cows: Posted by Mike Hosking From protests like the one above, all the way to teach world economy. Yes, you read it right.

  6. Hobbes's moral and political philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Hobbes’s moral philosophy is the fundamental starting point from which his political philosophy is developed. This moral philosophy outlines a general conceptual framework on human nature which is rigorously developed in The Elements of Law, De Cive and Leviathan. [5]

  7. Inherent jurisdiction - Wikipedia

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    As such, the exercise of inherent jurisdiction is a broad doctrine allowing a court to control its own processes and to control the procedures before it. The power stems not from any particular statute or legislation, but rather from inherent powers invested in a court to control the proceedings brought before it.

  8. Secular morality - Wikipedia

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    It posits that human beings are capable of being ethical and moral without religion or God, it neither assumes humans to be inherently evil or innately good, nor presents humans as "above nature" or superior to it. Rather, the humanist life stance emphasizes the unique responsibility facing humanity and the ethical consequences of human decisions.

  9. Open system (systems theory) - Wikipedia

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    In the social sciences an open system is a process that exchanges material, energy, people, capital and information with its environment. French/Greek philosopher Kostas Axelos argued that seeing the "world system" as inherently open (though unified) would solve many of the problems in the social sciences, including that of praxis (the relation of knowledge to practice), so that various social ...