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The term bicameral is a label applied to any legislature which is divided into two different houses or chambers - in Latin the term literally means "two chamgers." The legislative branch of the United States government is bicameral because it has two chambers: the Senate and the House of Representatives.

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The Philosophy of Politics and the Philosophy of Law are often studied separately, but they are presented here jointly because they both come back to the same thing: the study of force. Politics is the study of political force in the general community, while jurisprudence is the study of how laws can and should be used to achieve political and social goals.

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What is philosophy? Is there any point in studying philosophy, or is it a useless subject? What are the different branches of philosophy - what's the difference between aestheitcs and ethics? What's the difference between metaphysics and epistemology?

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