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Domino theory

A political theory current in the 1960s according to which the conversion of one country in South Asia to communism

Dynamitard

A political dynamiter A form found in some newspapers

Sovereignty

of the people. Sovereignty according to its normal legal connotation is the supreme power which govern the body politic, or society which constitutes the state and the power is independent of the particular form of government whether

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government

function of governing 3 : the continuous exercise of authority over and the performance of functions for a political unit : rule 4 a : the organization, machinery, or agency through which a political unit exercises authority

state

state often attrib 1 a : a politically organized body of people usually occupying a definite territory ;esp : one that is sovereign b : the

Joining together

is nothing in the context to restrict its meaning to a case of merger of two or more political parties and their resultant extinction on formation of a new political party. It will also embrace a case

Privy purse

payment of money by the Govern-ment to a Ruler of a former Indian State as privy purse all political considerations and under political sanctions and not under a right legally enforceable in any municipal court is strictly

Ruling Chief

'sovereignty' is stated thus: The supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power by which any independent state is governed; supreme political authority; paramount control of the constitution and frame of government and its administration; the self-sufficient source of political

State

v. State of Bombay, AIR 1960 SC 51: (1960) 1 SCR 605. (Constitution of India, Art. 3) The political system of a body of people who are politically organized; the system of rules by which jurisdiction and

free

free 1 a : having the legal and political rights of a citizen [representatives…shall be determined by adding to the whole number of persons "U.S. Constitution art.

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