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Abuse of Police Powers

Marines in relief party, Peiping, China.  1900.  Anna Graham Woodward.  (Marine Corps) Exact Date Shot Unknown NARA FILE #:  127-N-515634 WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #:  327
Marines in relief party, Peiping, China. 1900. Anna Graham Woodward. (Marine Corps)
Exact Date Shot Unknown
NARA FILE #: 127-N-515634
WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 327

by Samuel Williams Cooper

There has been much discussion concerning the abuse of personal liberty and private property from the exercise of extraordinary rights retained by the government for the protection of the public. Quarantine regulations, and license or prohibitory laws, where the state assumes full control of the individual and the destruction of his effects for the safety of society, may be cited as instances of the evil.

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