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111Democracy — For other uses, see Democracy (disambiguation) and Democratic Party (disambiguation). A woman casts her vote in the second round of the French presidential election of 2007 …
112Ireland — • Ireland lies in the Atlantic Ocean, west of Great Britain . . . Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Ireland Ireland † …
113Collective business system — A collective business system or collective business model is a business organization or association typically composed of relatively large numbers of businesses, tradespersons or professionals in the same or related fields of endeavor, which… …
114Democratic peace theory — (or liberal democratic theory[1] or simply the democratic peace ) is the theory that democracies, for some appropriate definition of democracy, rarely, or even never, go to war with one another. Some have preferred the term inter democracy… …
115Constitutional monarchy — Part of the Politics series on Monarchism …
116French States-General — In France under the Ancien Regime, the States General or Estates General (French: états généraux ), was a legislative assembly (see The States) of the different classes (or estates) of French subjects. It owed its origin to the same causes which… …
117civil rights movement — (in the US) the national campaign by African Americans for equal rights, especially in the 1950s and 1960s. The campaign included boycotts (= refusals to buy particular products), the actions of freedom riders, and in 1963 a march to Washington… …
118Australia — /aw strayl yeuh/, n. 1. a continent SE of Asia, between the Indian and the Pacific oceans. 18,438,824; 2,948,366 sq. mi. (7,636,270 sq. km). 2. Commonwealth of, a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, consisting of the federated states and… …
119France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …
120Massachusetts — /mas euh chooh sits/, n. 1. a state in the NE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 5,737,037; 8257 sq. mi. (21,385 sq. km). Cap.: Boston. Abbr.: MA (for use with zip code), Mass. 2. Massachusett. * * * I officially Commonwealth of Massachusetts… …
