Word Meanings - POLICEPOWER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The inherent power of a government to regulate its police affairs. 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.

• Underyoke
  To subject to the yoke; to make subject.
• Laterally
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• Sovereignty
  The quality or state of being sovereign, or of being a sovereign; the exercise of, or right to exercise, supreme power; dominion; sway; supremacy; independence; also, that which is sovereign; a sovereign state; as, Italy was formerly divided into
• Underlay
  To lay beneath; to put under.
• Branchiostegous
  Branchiostegal.
• Unitive
  Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union.
• Localized
  of Localize
• Stateroom
  A magnificent room in a place or great house.
• Undermatch
  One who is not a match for another.
• Constitutionist
  One who adheres to the constitution of the country.
• Wholeness
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• Mean-spirited
  Of a mean spirit; base; groveling.
• Underagent
  A subordinate agent.
• Underpay
  To pay inadequately.
• Everyone
  Everybody; -- commonly separated, every one.
• POLICEPOWER
  The inherent power of a government to regulate its police affairs. 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 gove
• Participated
  of Participate
• Undercast
  To cast under or beneath.
• Underproof
  Containing less alcohol than proof spirit. See Proof spirit, under Spirit.
• Undersparred
  Having spars smaller than the usual dimension; -- said of vessels.

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