What Factors Best Define the United States Form of Government

question 25

Essay

What factors best define the United States form of government institutionally and fundamentally? Give specific examples where applicable.

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Definitions:

Homosexual Panic

A term used to describe a defensive reaction or behavior in response to a perceived threat to one's sexual identity.

Compulsory Heterosexuality

The concept or belief that heterosexuality is assumed and enforced by societal norms as the only natural and normal mode of sexual orientation.

Heterosexual Matrix

A concept theorizing the social norms that enforce heterosexuality as natural and dictate gender binarism.

Epistemology of the Closet

The theory or study concerning the ways in which the framework of the closet (the concealment of sexual identity) informs, structures, and limits both sexual identities and theoretical discourses.