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n. The collective power of the people or the commonwealth.
Usage examples of "civil power".
But these regulations would have been impotent and nugatory, had not the licentious nobles been awed by the sword of the civil power.
If any human authority or civil power could have done this, why might it not also enjoin the eating of fish and drinking of ale in the holy banquet as a part of divine worship?
These arguments greatly inflamed minds already disposed to mischief, so that they determined to take up arms as soon as they had acquired a sufficient number of associates, and bound themselves by oath to mutual defense, in case any of them were subdued by the civil power.
Is it true that they were daily renewing invasions on the civil power, troubling the domestic quiet of their country, and rendering the operations of its government feeble and precarious?
You have conducted the great military contest with wisdom and fortitude, invariably regarding the rights of the civil power, through all the disasters and changes.
There can be no liberty where the military is not subordinate to the civil power in everything not immedi.
Otherwise, as avarice is the necessary consequence of old age, those immortals would in time become proprietors of the whole nation, and engross the civil power, which, for want of abilities to manage, must end in the ruin of the public.
But the civil power returned, the mission was packed out of the Residency at twenty- four hours' notice, new methods supervened, and the golden age (whatever it quite was) came to an end.
Ultimate civil power in each cluster seems to reside in a centralized sourceone for each cluster.
Ultimate civil power in each cluster seems to reside in a centralized source—.