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devolution Politics a transfer or allocation of authority, esp from a central government to regional governments or particular interests How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| As I will explain, Brown used his early texts to create male and female heroic bodies that could take their proper places within an evolutionary, linear narrative of black historical progress, a narrative designed to combat the devolutionary temporal narratives that would preclude blacks from inhabiting national space. Apocalyptic was the term applied by nineteenth-century German biblical scholars to writings that describe what in their estimation was a quick, accelerating, devolutionary demise of a certain segment of society. The Eightieth Amendment to the Constitution introduced its recommendation, though it reduced the proposed devolutionary share of 29 percent to 26 percent. |
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