How ‘police powers’ cover activities outside scope of law

Police powers are easily defended by state actors on the grounds that the mass of people constitute a public interest, and that thereby any one particular member of the citizenry might be regulated and subject to police power. By David Tulis / 92.7 NoogaRadio You may have individual rights to travel by car, you might suppose. But the state and state actors will say that thousands of people like you on the roads means that there is a public interest subject to police power and that the mass of people in combination, and taken as awhole and as a mass, … Continue reading How ‘police powers’ cover activities outside scope of law