Noun
police power (uncountable)
(law) The inherent power, incident to sovereignty, of a state to regulate and exercise reasonable control over matters of public health, public morals, public safety, and in general, all things relating to the general welfare.
It is not true that the perfection of police power is the result of the state's Machiavellianism or of some transitory influence. The whole structure of society implies it, of necessity. The more we mobilize the forces of nature, the more must we mobilize men and the more do we require order. Jacques Ellul
The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty. Ludwig von Mises
I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers. John Taylor Gatto
In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrong doing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power. Theodore Roosevelt
Had it not been for the exercise by the United States of the police power in her interest, her connection with the Isthmus would have been sundered long ago. Source: Internet
Police Power: New Police Act, Same Officers (Today) - “As long as the power remains subjective to each police officer, more laws will never solve the problem." Source: Internet