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Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography 1821
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The CogWatch.US glossary is intended to provide focus on the definitions of terms as applied to the concepts under consideration and may not include all the enumerated definitions that exist for the term. The designator (NW 1828) refers to the The American Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster 1828.
- anarchy - Want of government; a state of society when there is no law or supreme power, or when the laws are not efficient, and individuals do what they please with impunity; political confusion.
- benefactor - He who confers a benefit, especially one who makes charitable contributions either for public institutions or for private use. (NW 1828)
- bias - A mental leaning, partiality or prejudice.
- censorship - The act of examining publications, movies, mail, etc., and to remove or prohibit anything considered obscene or objectionable.
- cog - A person regarded as making a minor or insignificant contribution to the working of a large organization or process.
- commonwealth - An established form of government, or civil polity; or more generally a state; a body politic, consisting of a certain portion of men united by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws. (#1 NW 1828)
- corporate - 1. United in a body, or community, as a number of individuals, who are empowered to to transact business as an individual; formed into a body; as a corporate assembly, or society; a corporate town. 2. United, general; collectively one. (NW 1828)
- corporation - A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual. (NW 1828)
- corporatism - A political or economic system in which power is held by civic assemblies that represent economic, industrial, agrarian, social, cultural, and/or professional groups.
- democracy - A system of government of rule by the people who assemble and take political action directly.
- demagogue - A leader of the people; an orator who pleases the populace and influences them to adhere to him. (NW 1828)
- freeman - One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal. (NW 1828)
- ideology - the body of doctrine, myth, symbol, etc., with reference to some political or cultural plan, as that of communism, along with the procedures for putting it into operation.
- instruments - The methods used to produce a certain characteristic in a population.
- ism - A distinctive doctrine, system or theory.
- libertarian (1) - One who believes in the primacy of the individual over society and the private ownership of property and the basic means of production, distribution and exchange.
- libertarian (2) - Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity. (NW 1828)
- libertine - A man who lives without restraint of the animal passion; one who indulges his lust without restraint; one who leads a dissolute, licentious life; a rake; a debauchee. (#3 - NW 1828)
- medicalism - A system based on the dominate medical/health-care theory in a society, which includes the political control of the practitioners, the method of delivery and the enforcement of use by a population.
- oppression - The act of oppressing; the imposition of unreasonable burden in taxes or services; cruelty, severity.
- objective - Of or having to do with a known or perceived object that is not merely in the mind; being the aim or the goal.
- originalism - The belief in the original concepts of a doctrine, system or theory.
- republic - A commonwealth; a state in which the exercise of the sovereign power is lodged in representatives elected by the people. (#1 - NW 1828)
- socialism - The generic term for the belief in the primacy of society, considered collectively, over the individual.
- socialist - One who believes in the primacy of society over the individual and the public collective ownership or control over property and the basic means of production, distribution and exchange.
- stake-holder - An entity that holds an interest or property in an objective.
- tyranny - Arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; the exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government. Hence tyranny is often synonymous with cruelty and oppression.
- usurp - To seize and hold in possession by force or without right; as to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power. (NW 1828)
- usurpation - The act of seizing or occupying and enjoying the property of another, without right. (NW 1828)
- vectors - Characteristics
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