Sentences with phrase «legitimate police power»

The government has a legitimate police power to enforce the law.

However, when government actions or regulations are not founded within legitimate police powers, the government should be required to pay compensation for the inordinate burden levied on the property owner.

Not exact matches

Ministers hope to find a compromise that will allow genuine curators to collect legitimate firearms while giving police and enforcement agencies the power to remove black - market guns from the streets.

I genuinely acknowledge the legitimate outrage that people feel around police repression and abuse of power.

While police can't deny contact with a lawyer, other cases have found that prison authorities have a good deal of power to regulate constitutional rights for legitimate penological interests (like security).

Only recently, this Court had occasion to declare that a state law which denied equal enjoyment of property rights to a designated class of citizens of specified race and ancestry was not a legitimate exercise of the state's police power, but violated the guaranty of the equal protection of the laws.

The general right to make a contract in relation to his business is part of the liberty protected by the Fourteenth Amendment, and this includes the right to purchase and sell labor, except as controlled by the State in the legitimate exercise of its police power.