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
Yet the permission given to individuals, hostile to both, to make laws for either, was the second triumph at which Irish action aimed, and which English impolicy finally conceded.
From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various
An act was also passed in 1747 forbidding the use of the Highland garb; but the injustice and impolicy of such a law being generally felt it was afterwards repealed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various
Its policy or impolicy was a question to be decided by France.
From The History of Freedom by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
While on this part of the subject, we would suggest the impolicy of withholding from the metropolitan mendicants, whether impostors or not, the scanty means of support....
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
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