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Which consequence follows most directly from empowerment pan-Africanism nationalist thinking — Marcus Garvey's global mass movement, African economic empowerment and pan-Africanism to nationalist thinking? Use the relevant political concepts and evidence from Nationalism optional route.
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- Use a structural approach.
- AO1 identifies the formal institutions and constitutional rules governing political ideology and prescribed argument.
- AO2 then compares the UK and USA: both systems allocate public power, whereas the UK constitution is uncodified and the US Constitution is codified with a stronger formal separation of powers.
- This difference matters because institutional checks and legal authority operate differently.
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A strong Politics answer uses accurate knowledge and explains that the UK and USA may share functions whereas their constitutional structures differ. One viewpoint must be tested against a competing viewpoint; however, the overall judgement must follow from political evidence and context.
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