GOVERNMENT
Categories: Constitutional
Definition (1910 Edition)
Van Patten v. Leonard, 55 Iowa, 520, 8 N. W. 334; Putnam v. Westcott, 19 Johns. (N. Y.) 76.”
1. The regulation, restraint, supervision, or control which is ex-
ercised upon the individual members of an organized jural society by those invested with the supreme political authority, for the good and welfare of the body politic; or the act of exercising supreme political power or control.
1. The regulation, restraint, supervision, or control which is ex-
ercised upon the individual members of an organized jural society by those invested with the supreme political authority, for the good and welfare of the body politic; or the act of exercising supreme political power or control.
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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