13. What principle did Richmond Pearson Hobson employ in the following?

 

What is the police power of the States? The police power of the Federal

Government or the State--any sovereign State--has been defined. Take the

definition given by Blackstone, which is:

 

The due regulation and domestic order of the Kingdom, whereby the inhabitants of

a State, like members of a well-governed family, are bound to conform their

general behavior to the rules of propriety, of neighborhood and good manners,

and to be decent, industrious, and inoffensive in their respective stations.

 

Would this amendment interfere with any State carrying on the promotion of its

domestic order?

 

Or you can take the definition in another form, in which it is given by Mr.

Tiedeman, when he says:

 

The object of government is to impose that degree of restraint upon human

actions which is necessary to a uniform, reasonable enjoyment of private rights.

The power of the government to impose this restraint is called the police power.

 

Judge Cooley says of the liquor traffic:

 

The business of manufacturing and selling liquor is one that affects the public