Citizens obey the law, and elected officials enforce and execute it.
Until recently, officials enforced an unwritten law requiring farmers to devote 80percentto90percentcent of their arable land to cotton production.
An able ruler, he left office having checked corruption among his officials, enforced the laws of the empire, and reorganized finances so that the state revenue was increased.
The result was that military officials enforcing the blockade allowed frozen salmon and low-fat yogurt in, but not cilantro or instant coffee.
Additional protections in the United States come from the Endangered Species Act and the Lacey Act, which lets officials enforce the conservation laws of other countries.
Over the past week, agency officials enforcing the program have handcuffed and detained hundreds of men who showed up to be fingerprinted.
French officials enforced the vigorous suppression of the smuggling of English and colonial goods to the Continent through Holland that had sprung up over the previous decade with London's connivance.
Competition from foreign firms, whether at home or in export markets, sharply raises productivity.The second, harder to measure, is having the institutions to make capitalism work, create confidence, bust cartels, rein in greedy officials, enforce contracts and safeguard property.
Serfdom, which had never been acceptable to the Russian peasant, now became particularly burdensome and unjust; it became even more so since the lord's extensive police powers removed his serfs from the state's protection, and the new local officials enforced strictly the prohibition against appealing to the sovereign for relief.
While careful not to impede the flow of labour to industry, state officials enforced pass laws with unprecedented rigour: in the quarter-century preceding the final repeal of influx control in 1986 the state prosecuted nearly 10 million pass offenses, an average of more than 1,000 per day.
