Although less likely, there is a possibility of a fourth breakaway group in Scotland after a group appointed by the first minister, Alex Salmond, recommended that Scotland's press should have compulsory statute-backed regulation – even if the rest of the UK does not.
In 1922 Oregon amended its compulsory attendance statute to require that children between 8 and 16 years old be sent to public schools in the districts where they lived.
Think of Carrie Buck, and the 30,000 Americans who were forcibly sterilized after the Supreme Court's decision in Buck v. Bell, when the Court (with Holmes writing for an 8-1 majority) upheld a compulsory sterilization statute on the grounds that "[t]hree generations of imbeciles are enough".
The schooling laws fly in the face of compulsory education statutes that have been on the books throughout this country since the early 20th century, not to mention the new national push to raise standards and improve student achievement.
MPs have proposed "voluntary" regulation, but also statute to make it effectively compulsory.
While medical practitioners are compelled to advise parents of the importance of screening, and most states have newborn screening statutes, these vary from being compulsory to laissez faire, allowing parents or guardians to refuse.
They would be made compulsory for barons of the king in a statute of 1401 and seal matrices show very high standards of skill and artistry.
The first Statute of Westminster (1275) made jury trial compulsory in criminal cases and altered land law.
In that case, under the relevant statute, the authority could only issue a compulsory purchase order affecting the applicants' land if it was not part of, among other things, a park.
Under article 36 of the court's statute, any state may consent to the court's compulsory jurisdiction in advance by filing a declaration to that effect with the UN secretary-general, and by 2000 more than 60 countries had issued such a declaration.
Universal and compulsory male suffrage from age 18 by secret ballot was established (1912) in Argentina by a statute that he compelled an oligarchical legislature to pass and that has since been known by his name.
