precept
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Parish and town councils can also levy a charge - known as a precept - to fund their work, which is not subject to a cap.
From BBC
In a sprawling nation founded on the precept of individual liberty and populated primarily by immigrants from around the world, there was hardly one American experience.
These aren’t abstract legal theories; they are fundamental precepts of our federalist system.
Yet in recent years Heritage has drifted from these precepts.
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. seemed to agree when he wrote that “the language of the new nation, its laws, its institutions, its political ideas, its literature, its customs, its precepts, its prayers, primarily derived from Britain.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
