Expansive federal inaction was read to displace a traditionally sound exercise of state police power that only sought to complement federal law as written.

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The media also covered this development: Palin also just hired a lawyer to represent her during investigations of whether there was an abuse of power when her aides pressured the head of the state police to run her former brother-in-law off the force.

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Even though the conservatives still controlled all the effective instruments of state power the judiciary, the police, the army, the broadcast media it was fair to hope they would feel obliged to pay heed to the strength of the people's voice.

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On the other hand, Muslim neighborhoods, particularly in Europe, but also in Israel, the Philippines and Australia, are rendered increasingly ungovernable as arms of the state like the police and tax authorities come under attack when they attempt to assert state power in these Muslim communities.

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Ironically, within the classical liberal tradition, Lochner is far easier to defend than Roe because the ubiquitous police power, extensively discussed in Lochner, has always given the state powers to regulate over matters of health and safety.

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Yet the People's Republic of China remains with us even though Beijing's power elite ignores ideology in its economic plans and simply retains the apparatus of the communist police state.

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