Republican government
One in which the powers of sovereignty are vested in the people and are exercised by the people, either directly or through representatives chosen by the people, to whom those powers are specially delegated. In re Duncan, 139 U.S. 449, 11 S.Ct. 573, 35 L.Ed. 219; Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. (21 Wall.) 162, 22 […]
Government
An agency of the state, distinguished as it must be in accurate thought from its scheme and machinery of government. …in a colloquial sense, the United States or its representatives, considered as the prosecutor in a criminal action; as in the phrase, “the government objects to the witness.” Black’s Law Dictionary, Fifth Edition, p. 625
Incorporation Doctrine
The incorporation doctrine is a constitutional principle that applies parts of the Bill of Rights to the states through the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Prior to its existence, the Bill of Rights only applied to the federal government and federal court cases. After the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court […]
Permission
A license to do a thing; an authority to do an act which, without such authority, would have been unlawful.