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What is the rationale for the United Kingdom statistics body not allowing black people to identify as having an English ethnicity in its surveys?
Ethnicity
The concept of ethnicity has been described by the UK's highest court in this way
For a group to constitute an ethnic group... it must, in my opinion, regard itself, and be regarded by others,
as a distinct community by virtue of certain…
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Why is the West concerned about the enforcement of certain attire on women in Afghanistan but unconcerned about similar European policy?
France, Canada and other countries have introduced hijab bans - bans on essential Islamic dress that hijab-practicing Muslim women cannot appear in public without.
Adding to this the proposed values of personal freedoms in the West versus what most…
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Which US states give proportional Presidential electoral college votes to candidates?
The US Presidential election uses an "electoral college" system, where each state gets a certain number of "electors" (votes), and those electors cast the official votes for President. Each state's law determines how those electors are selected, and…
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Why have Bulgaria, Hungary, Mongolia, and Poland withdrawn from the Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological…?
The full title is: ‘ Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency’
The declarations and reservations of the treaty is available here on the IAEA website.
Bulgaria, Hungary, Mongolia, and Poland are the only…
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Is the U.S. military bound by the same environmental laws as the country being occupied?
Is the U.S. military bound by the same environmental laws as the country being occupied? Let's say that the United States is still occupying Afghanistan, to what extent does the U.S. military have to abide by the environmental laws of the country. I…
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What is the conservative argument against modern contraception?
I am asking this in the context of the Republican Party in the US being against contraception. That seems odd to me since even the anti-abortion Christian party in the country I live are for handing out free contraception to young people.
I…
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Why do identification documents have expiration dates?
I noticed that quite a lot of countries enforce expiration dates for their IDs, and according to Wikipedia, they seem to be valid for 10 years in many countries.
I figure that limiting the validity of an ID ensures that people have to "regularly"…
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Has the Palestinian Authority issued some official statement on the situation in May 2021?
Has the Palestinian Authority (PA) issued some official statement about the current situation? In particular, Hamas et al's rocket attacks on Israel? Google didn't return anything (although it was hard to phrase a good search for this).
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Which governors can flip the Senate as of March 2021?
Currently, the US Senate is split 50-50. If something should happen and one of the Senators die or resign, it's possible that they are replaced by a new Senator from the opposite party, giving one side a 51-49 advantage, and thereby taking full…
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Why don't countries revoke an IS fighter's citizenship arguing they have become citizens of IS?
Recently the UK supreme court ruled against IS bride Shamina Begum's attempt to return to the UK to fight her citizenship being revoked.
As I understand it, what happened here was that the UK wanted to disown Shamina Begum after she joined the…
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If the goal of communism is a stateless society, then why do we refer to authoritarian governments such as China as communist?
The actions taken by these governments seem to be more fascist than communist. The term communism is used to describe so many contradicting policies and it is very confusing.
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What is the political significance of FEC fundraising deadlines?
Every so often, I receive mass emails from political campaigns urging me to make a donation in advance of an FEC fundraising deadline. They claim that it's really important for them to reach some monetary goal by the deadline in order for the…
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Can a President be impeached after leaving office?
Suppose for the sake of the question that:
hypothetical U.S. President Liam Duke begins to be formally impeached on Jan 19, the day before the next President is sworn in.
President Duke is in fact guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors.
There is…
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As of 2020-12-16, is there any legal way for Trump to win the election despite the electoral college vote?
Trump has been claiming that the voting was flawed and there were many problems. At this point (December 16th, 2020), the Electoral College vote has been completed and Biden won. Is there any legally possible way for Trump to still turn this…
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Do any local/state/provincial/... governments maintain 'embassies' (within or outside their country)?
Are there any cases - anywhere in the world - of municipal governments maintaining something like a diplomatic mission 'abroad' in other municipalities, or of state/provincial governments doing the same in other states/provinces?
Obviously, not…
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