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n.A government that sets itself up in place of the legal government, often by use of force.
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
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government — From the Latin gubernaculum. Signifies the instrument, the helm, whereby the ship to which the state was compared, was guided on its course by the gubernator or helmsman, and in that view, the government is but an agency of the state,… … Black's law dictionary
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