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I believe arbitrary abuse of power means you have a lot of power when the law isnt controlling what you use your power for.I also think it means abusing your rights to do something for you own personal will or reasons.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. ... Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
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They have sometimes been oppressively used here, but the ideal that has always been held before the American courts has been that they are the refuge of justice and freedom against arbitrary power, that they should never be under even the suspicion that they might be dominated by either the executive or legislative power.
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Date posted: February 06, 2008 ; Last revised: February 06, 2008 ... ; Abstract: ; Mark Rebeiro's insightful book examines the doctrine of vagueness from Canadian constitutional law, the doctrine according to which a statutory provision can be struck down as invalid if a court finds ... Keywords: vagueness, rule of law,
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Vol. 14 No.11 (November 2004), pp.882-888 ... LIMITING ARBITRARY POWER: THE VAGUENESS DOCTRINE IN CANADIAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, by Marc Ribeiro. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004. 256pp. Hardcover. $85.00. ISBN: 0-7748-1050-5. Paper $29.95. ISBN: 0-7748-1051-3.
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Sample Chapter for Arbitrary Power: Romanticism, Language, Politics by Keach, W., published by Princeton University Press ... He saw talents bent by power to sinister purposes, and never thought of tracing the gigantic mischief up to arbitrary power, up to the hereditary distinctions that clash with the mental superiority...
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For all the flaws of democracy, people generally don't like arbitrary power placed in the hands of one person or group without any accountability. This has not always been the case, and it is not universally the case even now, but it is generally a hard, up-hill slog to argue against democracy at the present time.
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BELLEVUE, Wash., May 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' troubling support of legislation that would allow him and future attorneys general the arbitrary power to block firearms purchases without due process is cause for him to step down as the nation's highest ranking law enforcement officer,
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In this timely work, Angela J. Davis examines the expanding power of prosecutors, from mandatory minimum sentencing laws that enhance prosecutorial control over the outcome of cases to the increasing politicization of the office. ... Read about Arbitrary Justice in Time Magazine.
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