The act of keeping something dangerous under control or within limits.
If you need an example think of quarantine the dangerous disease be Corona Virus and to keep it under control we are staying inside.
Gun powered and traditionally
Was to give the traditional rights of citizens of England.
In 1787, a Russian statesman and former lover of Catherine the Great named Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin hastily erected a number of phony “mobile villages” along the banks of the Dnieper River. ... Accurate or not, the terms “Potemkin village” and “Potemkin facade” (or simply the word “Potemkin”) have stuck.
Jim crow laws, didn't allow them to vote