Nevertheless, in 1861, Lincoln justified the war in terms of legalisms ( the Constitution was a contract, and for one party to get out of a contract all the other parties had to agree ), and then in terms of the national duty to guarantee a republican form of government in every state.

Bolshevik revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky commonly used the terms " Bolshevism " and " Bolshevist " after his exile from the Soviet Union to differentiate between what he saw as true Leninism and the state and party as they existed under Joseph Stalin's leadership.

The constitution limits holders of the presidential office to a maximum of two terms, and prevents the president from being a member of any political party.

Specific obligations to support compliance with the domestic legislation or regulatory requirements of the contracting party providing genetic resources, and contractual obligations reflected in mutually agreed terms, are a significant innovation of the Nagoya Protocol.

* Take measures providing that genetic resources utilized within their jurisdiction have been accessed in accordance with prior informed consent, and that mutually agreed terms have been established, as required by another contracting party

On 19 March, a constitutional referendum was voted on and passed reforming the laws surrounding the power and election of the presidency, limiting the presidency to two four-year terms, providing judicial supervision of elections, requiring the president to appoint a deputy, calling for a commission to draft a new constitution following the parliamentary election, and providing easier access to presidential elections by candidates ( 30, 000 signatures from at least 15 provinces, 30 members of a chamber of the legislature, or nomination by a party holding at least one seat in the legislature ).

It is the largest party in Ireland in the Oireachtas, in local government, and in terms of Members of the European Parliament.

Because contracts of insurance have many features in common with wagers, insurance contracts are often distinguished under law as agreements in which either party has an interest in the " bet-upon " outcome beyond the specific financial terms.

He was elected general secretary of the Congress party for two terms in the 1920s.

In organisational terms, the party leadership continued to battle with the Militant tendency, though by now Militant was in retreat in the party and was simultaneously attracted by the opportunities to grow outside Labour's ranks — opportunities largely created by Margaret Thatcher's hugely unpopular poll tax.

One party aggressively pursues a set of terms to the point at which the other negotiating party must either agree or walk away.

After marathon negotiations, the PDS and WASG agreed on terms for a combined ticket to compete in the 2005 federal elections and pledged to unify into a single left party in 2006 or 2007.

At the 1996 election, the Keating Government was swept from power in a landslide, losing 29 seats and suffering a five percent two party preferred swing -- in terms of seats lost, the second-worst defeat of a sitting government at the federal level in Australia.

This latter provides a specific chapter titled " International Cooperation ", which instructs Mexican authorities to cooperate with foreign authorities with respect to organized crime assets within Mexico, and provides the framework by which Mexican authorities may politely request the cooperation of foreign authorities with respect to assets located outside of Mexico, in terms of any international instruments they may be party to.

The Statute is satisfied if the contract to convey is evidenced by a writing or writings containing the essential terms of a purchase and sale agreement and signed by the party against whom the contract is to be enforced.

When determining the legal obligations of states, one party to the original treaty and one a party to the amended treaty, the states will only be bound by the terms they both agreed upon.

The first Presidential election to include neither the incumbent President nor the incumbent Vice President on a major party ticket since 1952 came in 2008 when President George W. Bush had already served two terms and Vice President Cheney chose not to run.

Other examples of fishing terms that carry a negative connotation are: " fishing for compliments ", " to be fooled hook, line and sinker " ( to be fooled beyond merely " taking the bait "), and the internet scam of Phishing in which a third party will duplicate a website where the user would put sensitive information ( such as bank codes ).

However, indemnity as a legal concept has a much broader meaning than the other two terms ; namely, an indemnity is to make a party to a contract " whole " again should that contractually-specified event occur.

The left wing faction either joined the Democratic Party of the Left or stayed within the new Italian People's Party, while some right-wingers others joined National Alliance, however in 1994 – 2000 most Christian Democrats joined Forza Italia, which would have become the party with more ex-DC members in absolute terms.

Clausewitz had many aphorisms, of which the most famous is that " War is the continuation of Politik by other means " ( Politik being variously translated as ' policy ' or ' politics ,' terms with very different implications ), a description that has won wide acceptance.

The only American president elected to more than two terms, he facilitated a durable coalition that realigned American politics for decades.

Post-independence politics were initially dominated by the Commonwealth of Nations ' youngest head of state, Ieremia Tabwai, just 29, Kiribati's first beretitenti ( president ), who served for three terms from 1979 to 1991.

Some ideologies, notably Christian Democracy, claim to combine left and right wing politics ; according to Geoffrey K. Roberts and Patricia Hogwood, " In terms of ideology, Christian Democracy has incorporated many of the views held by liberals, conservatives and socialists within a wider framework of moral and Christian principles.

The aristocracy sat on the right of the Speaker ( traditionally the seat of honor ) and the commoners sat on the Left, hence the terms Right-wing politics and Left-wing politics.

" Dove " or " dovish " are informal terms used, especially in politics, for people who prefer to avoid war or prefer war as a last resort.

In a review of The Mismeasure of Man, Bernard Davis, professor of microbiology at Harvard Medical School, said that Gould erected a straw man argument based upon incorrectly defined key terms — specifically reification — which Gould furthered with a " highly selective " presentation of statistical data, all motivated more by politics than by science.

The new king was inclined to view politics in personal terms and taught to believe that ' Pitt had the blackest of hearts '.

Nasser's final terms were decisive and non-negotiable: “ a plebiscite, the dissolution of parties, and the withdrawal of the army from politics ”.

The OAU also aimed to stay neutral in terms of global politics, which would prevent them from being controlled once more by outside forces – an especial danger with the Cold War.

In terms of domestic policy, Katsura was a strictly conservative politician who attempted to distance himself from the Diet of Japan and party politics.

Enforcement has been haphazard, with measures more a matter of politics than adherence to the terms.

Warwick had been such an influential figure in 15th-century English politics that, on his death, no one matched him in terms of power and popularity.

In the most general and simple terms, feminist literary criticism before the 1970s — in the first and second waves of feminism — was concerned with the politics of women's authorship and the representation of women's condition within literature.

In English-speaking countries it was not until the 20th century that people applied the terms " right " and " left " to their own politics.

For Stuart Hall and other Marxist theorists, this shift in loyalty from the Labour Party to the Conservative Party was antithetical to the interests of the working class and had to be explained in terms of cultural politics.

He was again active in student politics, and became president of the Progressive Conservative Youth wing for two terms.

Although claiming to be still a supporter of social democracy, his economic policies led people on the left to identify him with neoliberalism and right-wing politics, terms that often carry a very negative connotation in Latin American political debate and academic circles.

The New York Times says that the Flushing Chinatown now rivals Manhattan's Chinatown in terms of being a cultural center for Chinese-speaking New Yorkers ' politics and trade.

In terms of county politics, Montgomery is a part of Le Sueur County District # 2.

While he claimed " politics were always distasteful to me ," Barnum was elected to the Connecticut legislature in 1865 as Republican representative for Fairfield and served two terms.

Haushofer exercised influence both through his academic teachings, urging his students to think in terms of continents and emphasizing motion in international politics, and through his political activities.

In broad terms, the English School itself has supported the rationalist or Grotian tradition, seeking a middle way ( or via media ) between the ' power politics ' of realism and the ' utopianism ' of revolutionism.