That branch of public law which deals with the various organs of the sovereign power considered as in motion, and prescribes in detail the manner of their activity, being concerned with such topics as the collection of the revenue, the regulation of the military and naval forces, citizenship and naturalization , sanitary measures, poor laws, coinage, police, the public safety and morals, etc. See Iloll. Jur. 305-307.
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