Policy

1. Polity; police, q. v. The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state.< Public policy. "What is the " public policy " of a State, and what is contrary to it, if inquired into beyond what its constitution, laws, and judicial decisions make known, will be found to be a matter of great vagueness and uncertainty, and to involve discussions which scarcely come within the range of judicial duty and functions, and upon which men may and will differ.^ What is termed the " policy of the government," with reference to any particular legislation, is generally a very uhcertain thing, upon which all sorts of opinions may be formed. It is a ground much too unstable upon which to rest the interpretation of a statute.^ The Federal courts can know nothing of " public policy " except from the Constitution and the laws, 6 South. Law E. 59-79 (1880), cases; 3 Kan. Law J. 386; 4 id. 36 (1886)

— Chic. Leg. News; 85 Cent. Mag. 179; 6 Saw. 605; 70 HI. 194; 89 Minn; 451; 18 Mo. Ap. 219-22;