manifest
(adjective)
Obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehensible; plain; not obscure or hidden.
Examples of manifest in the following topics:
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Religious Freedom
- Freedom of religion is a principle that allows an individual or community to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance.
- Freedom of religion is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance.
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Jacksonian Democrats: 1824–1860
- In national terms the Jacksonians favored geographical expansion, justifying it in terms of Manifest Destiny.
- The Whigs generally opposed Manifest Destiny and expansion, saying the nation should build up its cities.
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Current Challenges for Education
- This disparity manifests itself in a variety of ways: African-American and Hispanic students are more likely to receive lower grades, score lower on standardized tests, drop out of high school, and are less likely to enter and complete college.
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The Supremacy Clause
- In the 1950s, a Constitutional Amendment known as the Bricker Amendment was proposed in response, which would have mandated that all American treaties shall not conflict with the manifest powers granted to the Federal Government.
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Family, Peers, Church, and School
- Students are not only in school to study math, reading, science, and other subjects—the manifest function of this system.
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Political Parties
- Regulation of political parties may manifest as a crackdown on or repression of all opposition parties or certain parties who promote ideals that run counter to the general ideology of the state's incumbents or possess membership by-laws which are legally unenforceable.
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The Fifth Amendment, Self-Incrimination, and Double Jeopardy
- If the prosecutor moves for a mistrial, there is no bar to retrial if the trial judge finds "manifest necessity" for granting the mistrial.
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The First and Fourth Amendments and Issues of Terrorism and Security
- The protection of private conversations has been held to apply only to conversations where the participants have manifested a reasonable expectation that no other party is listening in on their conversation.The Fourth Amendment does not apply in the absence of such a reasonable expectation, and surveillance without warrant does not violate it.
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Shay's Rebellion and the Revision of the Articles of Confederation
- In early 1787 John Jay wrote that the rural disturbances and the inability of the central government to fund troops in response made "the inefficiency of the Federal government [become] more and more manifest. " Henry Knox observed that the uprising in Massachusetts clearly influenced local leaders who had previously opposed a strong federal government.
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The Rise of Adversarial Journalism
- Most commonly, this manifests by finding footage of exceptions to a generalization given by a speaker or interviewee.