Ignoring these realities, Washington prefers to brandish its military and economic power to coerce other countries into exempting all Americans, in advance, from the court's jurisdiction.
Mayan rulers, like the rulers of New York's business and cultural worlds, did not have the political power to coerce the provinces into submission.
The state need not (and should not) use its power to coerce domestic and sexual intimacy (civil marriage or union) between co-parents in order to advance its legitimate goal in protecting the welfare of children.
"They have tremendous power to coerce landlords to return the security deposit, but will only do so if the deposit has not been returned for more than 30 days after the tenant moves out," Mr. Treiman said.
It traced the conflict back to the early 90s and the fallout from the collapse of the Soviet Union and accused the Kremlin of abusing its status as a "great power" to coerce "a small and insubordinate neighbour".
"On the merits, we believe it's clear that there are limits on the government's power to coerce innocent service providers into its surveillance activities," said ACLU attorney Brian Hauss in an emailed statement.
If liberalism were a blind assertion of faith akin to other faiths -- belief in Christ or Allah -- we would have no grounds to defend free speech as opposed to "speech by permission," suited to the preferences of some, enforced by their power to coerce compliance.
But I generally cannot succeed in doing so, because there is police power to coerce me if necessary.
"[Apple] has launched a global attack on Qualcomm and is attempting to use its enormous market power to coerce unfair and unreasonable license terms from Qualcomm.
