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Jurist and senator, Rui Barbosa drafted Brazil's first republican constitution, championed federalism, habeas corpus and civil liberties, argued for the equality of nations at The Hague and led the Civilian Campaign against militarism.
Political topics
Rui Barbosa leans further toward federal than 91% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Structure is where Rui Barbosa stands furthest from the rest.
On Free market, Rui Barbosa sits practically at the catalog median.
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Doctrine that organizes the state through a constitutional division of power between a central government and autonomous regional units, such as cantons or states, with their own competencies, independent courts, and mutual checks against excessive concentration of power.
Economic system based on private property, free markets, and the pursuit of profit, in which production and prices are regulated by competition and supply and demand, with individual initiative as its engine.
Economic philosophy founded by Henry George holding that natural resources and land belong to the whole community, advocating a single land value tax (LVT) and the abolition of taxes on labor and capital.
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Pol Pot SocialismRadical Left31%
British economist, Ricardo formulated the comparative advantage theory underpinning free trade, fought the Corn Laws and the Poor Laws, and defended the secret ballot, Catholic emancipation and religious tolerance in Parliament.
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A parliamentary republic in the Middle East, Lebanon divides power among religious communities in a confessional system, with pluralism, a strong service sector, and chronic political and economic instability.
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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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