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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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POLICE, n. [L. politia; Gr. city.]
A
judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or
district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health,
etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the
administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated
town, or borough.
That which concerns the order of the
community; the internal regulation of a state.
The organized body of civil officers in a
city, town, or district, whose particular duties are the preservation
of good order, the prevention and detection of crime, and the
enforcement of the laws.
Military police, the body of
soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary
arrangements in a camp or garrison.
The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the
state (?) a camp as to cleanliness.
Police commissioner, a civil officer, usually one of a board, commissioned to regulate and control the appointment, duties, and discipline of the police. -- Police constable, or Police officer, a policeman. -- Police court, a minor court to try persons brought before it by the police. -- Police inspector, an officer of police ranking next below a superintendent. -- Police jury, a body of officers who collectively exercise jurisdiction in certain cases of police, as levying taxes, etc.; -- so called in Louisiana. Bouvier. -- Police justice, or Police magistrate, a judge of a police court. -- Police offenses (Law), minor offenses against the order of the community, of which a police court may have final jurisdiction. -- Police station, the headquarters of the police, or of a section of them; the place where the police assemble for orders, and to which they take arrested persons. To keep in order by
police.
To make clean] as, to
police a camp.
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