Definitions for the Reunification of Italy

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Risorgimento
'Rebirth', National sentiment, linked to the intelligentsia, looking back and rebirth of the great era of Italy (Rome), Pro-unification.
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Radicalism
Idea of drastic change, minority, extreme change - views and beliefs, political and non-political, the nature of the change is extreme.
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Nationalism
The loyalty one feels for their nation, has been known to lead to Fascism.
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Absolutism
Total control over a state, the ruler has absolute power.
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Constitution
A set of guidelines by which new laws are made, can be written or unwritten, it means that people's liberties are kept, hard to change the constitution.
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Monarchism
Country has a King or Queen, Hereditary - passed through a royal line.
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Republicanism
No monarch, not necessarily democratic, should be more democratically elected leadership than monarchism.
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Federalism
Regional identity, collection of states, some laws apply universally, some laws are made individually be each state, it allows variation within a block.
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Idea of drastic change, minority, extreme change - views and beliefs, political and non-political, the nature of the change is extreme.

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Radicalism

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The loyalty one feels for their nation, has been known to lead to Fascism.

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Total control over a state, the ruler has absolute power.

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A set of guidelines by which new laws are made, can be written or unwritten, it means that people's liberties are kept, hard to change the constitution.

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