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This page was added to provide listeners with dictionary of terms not commonly taught in the public (brown shirt indoctrination camps) schools. We are not surprised if they do not correspond with current dictionary definitions. Click here, for one explanation why this may be so. Numbers 17 and 20 apply most directly (you'll understand when you get there). Nothing is new. History repeats itself. Please use your library, internet search or other available reference resources to discover the lessons of history and decide for yourself in the present. The source for most individual word definitions is The Living Webster Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language copyright 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977 by the English Language institute of America, Inc. 1975 North Hawthorne Avenue, Melrose Park, Illinois 60160. We purposely use an old dictionary because along with rewriting history, word definitions have also changed, ie: conservative and liberal have changed dramatically. Autocracy - Supreme power invested in a single person; the government or power of an absolute monarch. Bigot - A person obstinately and unreasonably wedded to a particular religious creed, opinion, or practice; a person blindly attached to an opinion, system, or party, and bitterly intolerant of those who believe differently. Brown Shirt - The uniforms of the German Nazi Youth Camps (schools) where children were taught the Nazi political way, that it was the only right way and any dissention or disagreement identified the enemy. Communism - (root: common) A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state; an economic theory or system by which the state controls the means of production and the distribution and consumption of industrial products, the first modern example being the Soviet Union; communalism; standardized concept based on works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Conservationist - One who advocates or promotes conservation, esp. of the natural resources of a country; one engaged in protecting game and fish, preserving forests, conserving the food and fuel supply in the public interest. Conservatism - The disposition to preserve what is established; opposition to innovation or change; the principles and practices of political conservatism. Conservative - (A) Tending to preserve; preservative; inclined ot keep up existing institutions and customs; opposed to radical changes or innovation; moderate, cautious. (N) One whose principles, methods, and habits are moderate and cautious; one who avoids extremes. an advocate of political caution. Constitutional - Pertaining to the constitution or composition of a thing' essential' belonging to or inherent in a person's constitution of body or mind; affecting the bodily constitution; pertaining to, in accordance with, or subject to the constitution of a state. Democracy - (root: people rule) - Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them or their elected agents; a state having such a form of government; in a restricted sense, a state in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them rather than by their elected representatives; a state of society characterized by nominal equality of rights and privileges; political or social equality; democratic spirit; the common people of a community as distinguished from any privileged class; the common people with respect to their political power. Democratic - Pertaining to or of the nature of democracy; advocating or upholding democracy; catering to the tastes or serving the interests of the masses; pertaining to or characterized by the principle of political or social equality for all; U. S. Hist. noting or pertaining to a party whose distinctive principals included a strict interpretation of the Constitution with respect to the powers delegated to the general government and those reserved by the individual states. Environment - All the physical, social and cultural factors and conditions influencing the existence or development of an organism or assemblage of organisms; the act of surrounding; the state of being surrounded; that which surrounds; surroundings. Environmentalist - Not a listed word in the dictionary as of 1977 edition. Fascism - An autocratic system of government, headed by an absolute dictator, and characterized by strict social and economic regimentation, aggressive nationalistic policies often accompanied by racism, and forcible suppression of all criticism or opposition: the political philosophy, methods, or principles of fascism. A fascist movement esp. that headed by Benito Mussolini from 1922-43 in Italy. Humanism - Any system or mode of thought or action in which human and secular interest predominate. Iconoclast - (root: breaker) One who makes attacks on cherished beliefs or institutions; one who destroys or opposes the veneration of religious images. Ideology - A particular system of idea, esp. on social or political subjects; the science of ideas or their understanding; a system of philosophy which derives ideas exclusively from sensation; abstract speculation esp. of a visionary or impractical mature. Idiot - An extremely incompetent or foolish person. Liberalism - The disposition to change or reform what is established, as in religion or politics; specific principles and practices developed by advocates of political change; (econ) a theory advocating individual freedom from governmental control and a market which is self-regulating. Oligarchy - A form of government in which the power is exercised by or vested in a few; at state so governed; the ruling few or class collectively. Reprobate - (root: disapproved, rejected) Unprincipled; morally depraved; profligate; -n One who is profligate, depraved or wicked. Republic - (root: an affair, interest, public) A state or other political unit in which the supreme power is vested in the whole voting community which elects, indirectly or directly, representatives to exercise the power; any group of persons with a common cause. Republican - Pertaining to or having the character of a republic; consonant with the principles of a republic; -n One who favors or prefers a republican form of government. Secular - (root: an age or generation, a century, the times, the world) Pertaining to this present world or to things not spiritual or sacred or religious use; as, secular music; of the clergy, not bound by monastic vows or rules, as opposed to regular -n A layman; and ecclesiastic who is not bound by Monastic rules. Socialism - A theory or method of social organization and government whereby the citizenry jointly owns the means of production and distribution, and the power of administrative control is vested in the state; in Marxism, an intermediate state which must necessarily follow capitalism before the goal of a totally classless society can become a functional reality. United States Constitution - Please explore this site for your own information. Most of the information in this site (www.constitution.org) is unavailable through your local public education facility. Venal - (root: sale) Purchasable like merchandise, as things not properly bought and sold; as, venal votes; ready to sell one's services or influence basely or unscrupulously; accessible to bribery; corruptly mercenary. |