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A Democratic president and devout Baptist (1977–81), Carter made human rights the core of foreign policy, deregulated airlines and transport, brokered Camp David, returned the Panama Canal and fell after the Iran hostage crisis and stagflation.
Political topics
Jimmy Carter leans further toward federal than 77% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Structure is where Jimmy Carter stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, Jimmy Carter sits practically at the catalog median.
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Centrist current that applies Christian values to democratic politics, defending the social market economy, family, solidarity, and the common good as the foundation of free and pluralist institutions.
Branch that unites conservatism and environmental protection, defending the preservation of nature as part of the tradition and heritage to be passed on to future generations, with prudence toward change.
A system in which citizens decide laws directly through referendums, popular initiatives, assemblies and recall of officials, instead of delegating to representatives, as in the Swiss cantons and classical Athens.
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Stalinist SocialismRadical Left28%
The father of classical liberalism, Locke grounded the natural rights to life, liberty, and property and government limited by consent and the separation of powers, inspiring the modern liberal revolutions.
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Unincorporated United States territory in the Caribbean, Puerto Rico holds American citizenship without full voting representation in Congress, faces an ongoing debate between statehood, independence, and the current status, and struggles with debt crisis and heavy dependence on federal tax incentives.
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Medieval alliance of autonomous cantons formed from the 1291 Pact, the Old Swiss Confederacy operated without a strong central power, combining direct democracy in local assemblies (Landsgemeinde), independent peasant militias, and weak joint military/diplomatic coordination among the cantons.
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