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The aggregate of the individuals who comprise a state or a nation. In a more restricted sense, as generally used in Constitutional Law, the entire body of those citizens of a state or a nation who are invested with political power for political purposes (the qualified voters). people n. the government in a criminal prosecution, as in People v. Capone. Such a case may also be captioned State v. Davis or in federal prosecutions, United States v. Miller. people noun citizenry, commonality, community, community at large, country, general public, inhabitants, multitude, nation, national group, nationality, persons, populace, population, race, society, state See also: community, family, humanity, nationality, populace, population, race PEOPLE. A state; as, the people of the state of New York; a nation in its
collective and political capacity. 4 T. R. 783. See 6 Pet. S. C. Rep. 467.
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Keynote speaker and UC Berkeley professor Bishara Doumani argued that Palestinians must understand "the role of the West and Arab governments in controlling, co-opting, and dispersing Palestinian agency" and "look critically at the territorial dimension of peoplehood. 28-29, the climax of the letter to that point, is about peoplehood. Abu-Lughod, therefore, laid the groundwork for a new perception of Palestine question, a view which recognized the peoplehood and nationhood of the Palestinians, instead of the Zionist and Israeli versions of the Palestinian narrative. |
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