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Semi-presidential system
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One in which executive powers are shared between a president and a prime minister.
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Natural rights
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Those rights (such as to life, liberty, and property) supposedly given to humans by God or by nature, their existence taken to be independent of government.
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Cohabitation
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An arrangement in which a president from one party is obliged – because of party numbers in the legislature – to appoint and work with a prime minister from another party.
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First- and second-order elections
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Elections ranked according to the stakes in the results, with first-order elections shaping national governments, while local elections are often considered second-order.
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