impolicy
Britishnoun
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“It is not the province of the court to decide upon the justice or injustice, the policy or impolicy, of these laws. The decision of that question belonged to the political or lawmaking power.”
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 8, 2015
Not long afterwards Mr. Colburn saw the impolicy of his scheme.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various
In England, it served to show the ignorance of the ministers; the impolicy of their measures towards America; and the utter inexpediency of the stamp act.
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Mason Locke Weems
Arguments drawn from impolicy or inconvenience, says Judge Story, ought here to be of no weight, as "the only sound principle is to declare ita lex scripta est, to follow and to obey."
From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud
He spoke contemptuously of the impolicy by which we had been deprived of our privileges, and declared his determination to place us on a height from which we might move the world.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various
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