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Police power
Police power Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Police power?Synonyms | Synonyms for Police power: Related Terms | Find terms related to Police power: See Also | Police power In Webster's Dictionary \Police power\ (Law)
The inherent power of a government to regulate its police
affairs.
Note: The term police power is not definitely fixed in
meaning. In the earlier cases in the United States it
was used as including the whole power of internal
government, or the powers of government inherent in
every sovereignty to the extent of its dominions (11
Peters (--U. S.) 102). The later cases have excepted
from its domain the development and administration of
private law. Modern political science defines the power
as a branch of internal administration in the exercise
of which the executive should move within the lines of
general principles prescribed by the constitution or
the legislature, and in the exercise of which the most
local governmental organizations should participate as
far as possible (--Burgess). Under this limitation the
police power, as affecting persons, is the power of the
state to protect the public against the abuse of
individual liberty, that is, to restrain the individual
in the exercise of his rights when such exercise
becomes a danger to the community. The tendency of
judicial and popular usage is towards this narrower
definition.
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