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American boxer, three-time heavyweight champion. He converted to Islam through the Nation of Islam and refused Vietnam draft induction as a conscientious objector, losing his title and license for years; he became a civil rights symbol and later a peace ambassador.
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Muhammad Ali leans further toward federal than 84% of the 749 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Structure is where Muhammad Ali stands furthest from the rest.
On Power, Muhammad Ali sits close to the catalog median.
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German liberal school of Freiburg (Eucken, Rüstow, Müller-Armack) that defends the free market within firm rules guaranteed by the state, against monopolies and central planning, with a Christian ethical basis and social policy, the origin of the social market economy.
Doctrine that organizes the state through a constitutional division of power between a central government and autonomous regional units, such as cantons or states, with their own competencies, independent courts, and mutual checks against excessive concentration of power.
Tradition of republics made of sovereign provinces or cantons, such as the Dutch Republic and the old Swiss Confederacy, with local self-government, open trade, armed neutrality and deep-rooted Protestant faith.
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Stalinist SocialismRadical Left24%
An American economist, Henry George proposed the single tax on land value, arguing that land rent should fund society and reduce inequality rather than burdening labor or capital.
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A parliamentary republic in the Middle East, Lebanon divides power among religious communities in a confessional system, with pluralism, a strong service sector, and chronic political and economic instability.
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Under David Lange's Labour government and minister Roger Douglas, New Zealand privatized state firms, cut farm subsidies, opened trade and deregulated the economy, keeping democracy and its anti-nuclear policy.
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