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Ideology [r]: Add brief definition or description
Government [r]: The system by which a community or nation is controlled and regulated. A government is a person or group of persons who govern a political community or nation. ^[e]
Political philosophy [r]: Branch of philosophy that deals with fundamental questions about politics. ^[e]
Politics [r]: The process by which human beings living in communities make decisions and establish obligatory values for their members. ^[e]

Adam Smith [r]: Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723-1790), a major contributor to the modern perception of free market economics; author of Wealth of Nations (1776). ^[e]
John Locke [r]: (1632–1704) English empiricist philosopher. ^[e]
John Rawls [r]: Add brief definition or description

American conservatism [r]: A diverse mix of political ideologies that contrast with liberalism, socialism, secularism and communism. ^[e]
Anarchism [r]: Doctrine that all forms of government are undesirable and should be abolished. ^[e]

Republicanism [r]: The political ideology of a nation as a republic, with an emphasis on liberty, rule by the people, and the civic virtue practiced by citizens. ^[e]
Social Gospel [r]: Protestant intellectual movement that applied Christian principles to social problems. ^[e]
Socialism [r]: Any socio-economic system in which property and distribution of wealth are controlled by a community, by cooperation law. ^[e]
The Enlightenment [r]: An 18th-century movement in Western philosophy and intellectual life generally, that emphasized the power or reason and science to understand and reform the world. ^[e]
Utilitarianism [r]: Philosophical doctrine created by Jeremy Bentham and James Mill which states that an action can be considered good to the extent that it increases the general level of happiness in society. ^[e]