# Trump's Republican primary campaign

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [September 3, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828 "2015-09-03T18:00:56Z")\
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> [@septimus](#):
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> [off-topic]
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> This use of _ **agency** _ is implied by Merriam-Webster (“2 : the capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power”) but I don’t recall hearing it used with this connotation (personal force) until this and one similar use at SDMB a few months ago.
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> Is it a newish usage? Or was I just oblivious to it for several decades?

Used in that sense it’s pretty much a term of art just for lawyers & philosophers. But it’s a commonly-used term by both those groups.

You’re reading a lot here written by folks who are either actual or armchair lawyers & philosophers.

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