His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.

Of one thing we can be sure: they were not sketched out by the revolutionary theorists of the eighteenth century who formulated the political principles and originally shaped the political institutions of what we term the `` free society ''.

But the enmities it will incur, the isolation into which it will descend, and the internal moral and spiritual softness that will be engendered, will, in the long term, bring it to economic and political disaster.

Secondly, the term " agrarianism " means political proposals for land redistribution, specifically the distribution of land from the rich to the poor or landless.

In his first term in the House, he soon articulated his own brand of Jeffersonian – Jacksonian principles he would steadfastly promote throughout most of his political career ; he advocated for the interests of the poor, while maintaining an anti-abolitionist stance, insisted on limited spending by the government and opposed protective tariffs.

* ABC nations, a political term referring to Argentina, Brazil and Chile

* Economists use the term " global labor arbitrage " to refer to the tendency of manufacturing jobs to flow towards whichever country has the lowest wages per unit output at present and has reached the minimum requisite level of political and economic development to support industrialization.

The Brazilian foreign policy under the Lula da Silva administration had been focused on the following directives: to contribute toward the search for greater equilibrium and attenuate unilateralism ; to strengthen bilateral and multilateral relations in order to increase the country's weight in political and economic negotiations on an international level ; to deepen relations so as to benefit from greater economical, financial, technological and cultural interchange ; to avoid agreements that could jeopardize development in the long term.

This year marks the first post-communist government that not collapsed and served its 4-year term until 2001, thus stabilizing the political system in Bulgaria.

Another relatively early use of the term in a German-language work was in a book by Fritz Sternberg, a Jewish Marxist political economist who was a refugee from the Third Reich.

The supporters of the " Boer " designation view the term " Afrikaner " as an artificial political label which usurped their history and culture, turning " Boer " achievements into " Afrikaner " achievements.

Another frequent application of the term is to distinguish political groups in areas of mixed religious backgrounds.

The term is frequently used by scholars and in popular culture to identify secret military, banking, or political actions aimed at " stealing " power, money, or freedom, from " the people ".

The political scientist Michael Barkun discussing the usage of this term in contemporary American culture holds that a conspiracy theory is a belief which explains an event as the result of a secret plot by exceptionally powerful and cunning conspirators to achieve a malevolent end.

Michael Kelly, a Washington Post journalist and critic of anti-war movements on both the left and right, coined the term " fusion paranoia " to refer to a political convergence of left-wing and right-wing activists around anti-war issues and civil liberties, which he said were motivated by a shared belief in conspiracism or anti-government views.

Popper even uses the term " conspiracy " to describe ordinary political activity in the classical Athens of Plato ( who was the principal target of his attack in The Open Society and Its Enemies ).

Ana Castillo has referred to herself as a Chicana, and her literary work reflects that she primarily considers the term to be a positive one of self-determination and political solidarity.

The term is parallel to-ology in English, being used to construct the names of academic fields: the Chinese names of fields such as physics, chemistry, biology, political science, economics, and sociology all end in xué.

Columnist Andrew Cohen called Canada Day a term of " crushing banality " and criticized it as " a renunciation of the past a misreading of history, laden with political correctness and historical ignorance ".

Chardonnay socialist is a derogatory Australasian term used to describe those on the political left with comfortable middle or upper-class incomes, tertiary education, and a penchant for the finer things in life, Chardonnay being a form of white wine for example.

The term " chardonnay socialist " is regularly used by people from throughout the political spectrum to criticise opponents.

It was this authority of the Roman censors which eventually developed into the modern meaning of " censor " and " censorship "— i. e., officials who review published material and forbid the publication of material judged to be contrary to " public morality " as the term is interpreted in a given political and social environment.

The first established use of the term in a political context was by François-René de Chateaubriand in 1819, following the French Revolution.

The UP also suffered an increasing number of losses during this term ( including the assassination of presidential candidate Bernardo Jaramillo ), which stemmed both from private proto-paramilitary organizations, increasingly powerful drug lords and a number of would-be paramilitary-sympathizers within the armed forces.

Roosevelt's first term as president ( 1901 – 1905 ) was incomplete, as he succeeded to the office upon the assassination of William McKinley ; it was only his second term ( 1905 – 1909 ) that encompassed four full years.

In his first term, President Theodore Roosevelt, following President McKinley's assassination of 1901, began trust-busting and anti-corporate-influence activities, but fearing defeat, turned to bankers and industrialists for support in what turned out to be his 1904 landslide campaign.

The concept and its potential effects are also referred to as assassination politics, a term popularized by Jim Bell in his 1995-96 essay of the same name

In 2004, President Chen was re-elected to a second four year term after an assassination attempt which occurred the day before the election.

Johnson succeeded to the presidency following the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, completed Kennedy's term and was elected President in his own right, winning by a large margin in the 1964 election.

Theodore Roosevelt succeeded to the presidency upon William McKinley's assassination and was elected in 1904 to a full term himself, serving from 1901 to 1909.

According to Encyclopædia Britannica, " the term is usually applied to attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the first extensive pogroms followed the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881 ," and the Wiley-Blackwell Dictionary of Modern European History Since 1789 states that pogroms " were antisemitic disturbances that periodically occurred within the tsarist empire.

The movie also hints at some kind of responsibility, real or imagined, that Nixon felt towards the John F. Kennedy assassination through references to " the Bay of Pigs ", the implication being that the mechanisms set into place for the invasion by Nixon during his term as Dwight Eisenhower's vice-president spiraled out of control to culminate in the assassination and, eventually, Watergate.

The term originated during the Vietnam War and was most commonly used to mean the assassination of an unpopular officer of one's own fighting unit.

Traditionally, the office of dictator could only be held for six months, and although he was not the first Roman dictator to be given the office with no term limit, it was Caesar's dictatorship that inspired the string of Roman emperors who ruled after his assassination.

After Kennedy's assassination, vice president Lyndon Baines Johnson served out the remainder of the term, using appeals to finish the job that Kennedy had started to pass a remarkable package of liberal legislation that he called the Great Society Johnson used the full powers of the presidency to ensure passage the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Because of persistent debate, answered and unanswered questions, and conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination and the possible related role of the grassy knoll, the term " grassy knoll " has come to also be a modern slang expression indicating suspicion, conspiracy, or a cover-up.

By the end of his term ( and, as a result of his assassination, his life ), Verwoerd had solidified the NP's domination of South African politics.

In its second term in opposition since 1991, the party suffered the assassination of several key members.

The Eulmi Incident ( 을미사변, 乙未事變 ) is the term used for the assassination of Empress Myeongseong, which occurred in the early hours of 8 October 1895 at Okho-ru ( 옥호루, 玉壺樓 ) in the Geoncheonggung ( 건청궁, 乾淸宮 ), which was the rear private royal residence inside Gyeongbokgung Palace.

The term is pejorative since it accuses the organizations of prioritizing their personal fortunes above the national interest, as well as eliminating any opposition, whether through targeted propaganda or assassination.

In her second term in opposition, Hasina had to face assassination attempts against herself and killings of important party personnel.

Executive Action is a term used by the Central Intelligence Agency starting in the early 1950s to refer to assassination operations.

His term ended with his assassination.

Pervomartovtsy (; a compound term literally meaning those of March 1 ) were the Russian revolutionaries, members of Narodnaya Volya, planners and executors of the assassination of Alexander II of Russia ( March 1, 1881 ) and attempted murder of Alexander III of Russia ( March 1, 1887, also known as " The Second First of March ").

His term of office was clouded by the assassination of King Umberto ( 29 July 1900 ), and his administration was brought to an end in February 1901 by a vote of the chamber condemning his weak attitude towards a general dock strike at Genoa.