Reality, DEFINED:

ar·bi·trar·y, arbitrary;

1. Determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle.

2. Based on or subject to individual judgment or preference.

3. Established by a court or judge rather than by a specific law or statute.

4. Not limited by law; despotic.

ar·is·toc·ra·cy, aristocracy;

1. A hereditary ruling class; nobility. (i.e. - Kennedy, Rockefeller, etc.)

2. a. Government by a ruling class.

    b. A state or country having this form of government.

3. a. Government by the citizens deemed to be best qualified to lead.

    b. A state having such a government.

4. A group or class considered superior to others.

armed, arm·ing, arms;

1. To supply or equip oneself with weaponry.

2. To prepare oneself for warfare or conflict.

be·tray, betray;

1. a. To give aid or information to an enemy of; commit treason against: betray one's country.

    b. To deliver into the hands of an enemy in violation of a trust or allegiance: betrayed Christ to the Romans.

2. To be false or disloyal to: betrayed their cause.

bound, bounds;

1. Confined by bonds; tied.

2. Being under legal or moral obligation.

3. Predetermined; certain.

4. Determined; resolved.

brib·er·y, bribery;

1. The act or practice of offering, giving, or taking a bribe.

checks and bal·anc·es, checks and balances;

1. a system of constitutional government which guards against absolute power by providing for separate executive, judicial, and legislative bodies who share powers and thereby check and balance one another.

2.  the powers (as judicial review, the presidential veto, and the congressional override) conferred on each of the three branches of government by which each restrains the others from exerting too much power.

col·lu·sion, collusion;

1. A secret agreement between two or more parties for a fraudulent, illegal, or deceitful purpose.

com·plic·it, complicit;

1. Associated with or participating in a questionable act or a crime; having complicity: newspapers complicit with the propaganda arm of a dictatorship.

com·pro·mise, compromise;

1. A concession to something detrimental or pejorative: a compromise of morality.

2. expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute.

con·fis·cate, con·fis·cat·ing, con·fis·cates, confiscate;

1. To seize (private property).

2. To seize by or as if by authority.

con·spir·a·cy, conspiracy;

1. An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.

2. A group of conspirators.

3. Law. An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.

4. A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design.

con·sti·tu·tion, constitution;

1. a. The system of fundamental laws and principles that prescribes the nature, functions, and limits of a government or another institution.

2. The document in which such a system is recorded.

3. The fundamental law of the United States, framed in 1787, ratified in 1789, and variously amended since then.

cor·rupt, corrupt;

1. Marked by immorality and perversion; depraved.

2. Venal; dishonest: a corrupt mayor.

3. Containing errors or alterations.

v. cor·rupt·ed, cor·rupt·ing, cor·rupts;

1. To destroy or subvert the honesty or integrity of.

2. To ruin morally; pervert.

3. To taint; contaminate.

4. To change the original form of (a text, for example).


de·lu·sion, delusion;

1. The act or process of deluding.

2. A false belief or opinion.

3. A false belief strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence.

de·praved, depraved;

1. having the nature of vice.

2. hopelessly bad; marked by immorality; deviating from what is considered right or proper or good.

des·pot, despotic;

1. A ruler with absolute power.

2. A person who wields power oppressively; a tyrant.

dis·sem·ble, dissemble;

1. To disguise or conceal behind a false appearance.

2. To make a false show of; feign.

du·ty, duty;

1. An act or a course of action that is required of one by position, social custom, law, or religion: Do your duty to your country.

2. a. Moral obligation: acting out of duty.

    b. The compulsion felt to meet such obligation.

3. A service, function, or task assigned to one,

en·croach·ment, encroachment;

1. The act or an instance of encroaching;

en·croach;

1. To take another's possessions or rights gradually or stealthily.

2. To advance beyond proper or former limits.

e·vil, evil;

1. Morally bad or wrong; wicked: an evil tyrant.

2. Causing ruin, injury, or pain; harmful.

3. Characterized by or indicating future misfortune; ominous.

4. Bad or blameworthy by report; infamous.

5. An evil force, power, or personification.

6. Something that is a cause or source of suffering, injury, or destruction.

Free;

1. Not imprisoned or enslaved; being at liberty.

2. Not controlled by obligation or the will of another: felt free to go.

3. a. Having political independence.

   b. Governed by consent and possessing or granting civil liberties: a free citizenry.

    c. Not subject to arbitrary interference by a government: a free press.

guil·lo·tine, guillotine;

1. A device consisting of a heavy blade held aloft between upright guides and dropped to behead the victim below.

2. At least 1200 people met their deaths under the guillotine or otherwise; after accusations of counter-revolutionary activities during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.

hon·or, honor;

1. a. Principled uprightness of character; personal integrity.

    b. A code of integrity, dignity, and pride, chiefly among men, that was maintained in some societies, by force of arms.

2. High respect, as that shown for special merit.

3. a. Good name; reputation.

    b. A source or cause of credit.

hy·poc·ri·sy, hypocrisy;

1. The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

2. An act or instance of such falseness.

 il·le·gal, illegal;

1. Prohibited by law.

2. contrary to or in violation of a law.

in·de·pen·dence, independence;

1. The state or quality of being independent.

2. freedom from control or influence of another or others.  

in·fringe·ment, infringement;

1. A violation, as of a law, regulation, or agreement; a breach.

2. An encroachment, as of a right or privilege.

ig·no·rant, ignorant;

1. lacking general education or knowledge.

2. ignorant of the fundamentals of a given art or branch of knowledge.

3. lacking basic knowledge.

lib·er·ty, Liberty;

1. The condition of being free from restriction or control.

2. The right and power to act, believe, or express oneself in a manner of one's own choosing.

3. Freedom from unjust or undue governmental control.

4. A right or immunity to engage in certain actions without control or interference: the liberties protected by the Bill of Rights.

mor·al, moral;

1. Of or concerned with the judgment of the goodness or badness of human action and character: moral scrutiny; a moral quandary.

2. Conforming to standards of what is right or just in behavior.

3. Arising from conscience or the sense of right and wrong: a moral obligation.

op·pres·sion, oppression;

1. The act of oppressing; arbitrary and cruel exercise of power.

2. The state of being oppressed.

3. unlawful, wrongful, or corrupt exercise of authority by a public official acting under color of authority that causes a person harm.

4. dishonest, unfair, wrongful, or burdensome conduct.

pa·tri·ot, Patriot;

1. One who loves, supports, and defends one's country.

pre·tense, pretense;

1. The act of pretending; a false appearance or action intended to deceive.

2. A professed but feigned reason or excuse.

3. Something imagined or pretended.

prin·ci·ple, principle;

1. A basic truth, law, or assumption.

2. a. A rule or standard.

    b. The collectivity of moral or ethical standards or judgments.

3. A fixed or predetermined policy or mode of action.

4. A basic or essential quality or element determining intrinsic nature or characteristic behavior: the principle of self-preservation.

5. A rule or law concerning the functioning of natural phenomena or mechanical processes.

prop·a·gan·da, Propaganda;

1. The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.

2. Material disseminated by the advocates or opponents of a doctrine or cause.

re·pres·sion, repression;

1.  the action or process of repressing.

2. a state of forcible subjugation.

3. the act of repressing; control by holding down.

re·pub·lic, republic;

1. a. A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president.

    b. A nation that has such a political order.

2. a. A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.

    b. A nation that has such a political order.

re·pug·nant, repugnant;

1. Arousing disgust or aversion; offensive or repulsive: morally repugnant behavior.

2. Logic. Contradictory; inconsistent

right;

Something that is due to a person or governmental body by law, tradition, or nature.

sub·vert, sub·vert·ed, sub·vert·ing, sub·verts;

1. To destroy completely; ruin: “schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community.” (Alexander Hamilton).

2. To undermine the character, morals, or allegiance of; corrupt.

3. To overthrow completely.

trai·tor, traitor;

1. One who betrays one's country, a cause, or a trust, especially one who commits treason.

trea·son, treason;

1. Violation of allegiance toward one's country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one's country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies; Traitor. Punishment for the crime, historically, was often by; Firing Squad, The Gallows, guillotine, etc. The Romans often allowed a traitor, of higher social rank, to commit suicide by poisen or other means.   

2. A betrayal of trust or confidence.

tyr·an·ny, tyranny;

1. A government in which a single ruler is vested with absolute power.

2. The office, authority, or jurisdiction of an absolute ruler.

3. Absolute power, especially when exercised unjustly or cruelly: “I have sworn... eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man” (Thomas Jefferson).

4. a. Use of absolute power.

    b. A tyrannical act.

5. Extreme harshness or severity; rigor.

un·al·ien·a·ble, unalienable;

1. Not to be separated, given away, or taken away; inalienable.

2.  incapable of being repudiated or transferred to another.

Under color of authority;

a legal phrase indicating a person is claiming or implying the acts he or she is committing are related to and legitimized by his or her role as an agent of governmental power. The phrase can refer to lawful or unlawful acts.

un·der·mine, undermine;

1. To weaken by wearing away a base or foundation.

2. To weaken, injure, or impair, often by degrees or imperceptibly; sap.

un·prin·ci·pled, unprincipled;

1. lacking principles or moral scruples.

2. having little or no integrity.

un·scru·pu·lous, unscrupulous;

1. without scruples or principles; "unscrupulous politicos who would be happy to sell...their country in order to gain power".

2. lacking honesty and oblivious to what is honorable.

u·surp, usurp;

1. To seize and hold (the power or rights of another, for example) by force and without legal authority.

2. To take over or occupy without right.

vile;

1. morally reprehensible.

2.  thoroughly unpleasant.

vi·o·la·tion, violation;

1. The act or an instance of violating or the condition of being violated.

2. an act that disregards an agreement or a right.

3. entry to another's property without right or permission.

4. a disrespectful act.

Excerpt from The Declaration of Independence;

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.....

.....abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments....and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever....has constrained our fellow Citizens....to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands....In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury....whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people....We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us....We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.

We, therefore....appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world....by Authority of the good People....solemnly publish and declare...of Right ought to be Free and Independent States....and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power....and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

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