law and order

alternative law-and-order

1. datedobsoleteuncountableThe principles under which the world and its components operate.

   For, as in all Monarchies, it is the Law and Order of God Almighty that Subjects receive from, and not give unto their Soveraigne Lawes

   1653, John Allington, The Grand Conspiracy of the Members Against the Minde, page 13

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   But all evill of punishment ariseth from evill of fault and this evill of fault is from the creature itself, breaking the Law and Order that God hath set to it.

   1659, William Ames, The Substance of Christian Religion, page 135

   Neither do Law and Order agree in the reciprocation of Names only, but also in their Natures. Hence Plato oft useth them promiscuously one for the other, and joins them together as exegetic each of other.

   1677, Theophilus Gale, The Court of the Gentiles, Or, A Discourse Touching the Original of Human, page 187

2. uncountableThe strict enforcement of law, statutes, and social conventions.

   The government’s default approach to labor disputes has been to treat them as a threat to law and order. After a widely reported miners’ strike in the northeastern city of Shuangyashan in 2016, for example, the Public Security Bureau arrested 30 people for what it called serious criminal charges.

   2018 April 2, Harvey Thomlinson, “China’s Communist Party Is Abandoning Workers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Apr 2018, Opinion