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      • Public morality refers to moral and ethical standards enforced in a society, by law or police work or social pressure, and applied to public life, to the content of the media, and to conduct in public places.
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  2. Public morality refers to moral and ethical standards enforced in a society, by law or police work or social pressure, and applied to public life, to the content of the media, and to conduct in public places.

  3. (pʌblɪk ) adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B2. Public means relating to all the people in a country or community. [...] See full entry for 'public' Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. COBUILD Collocations. public morals. bad moral. moral law.

  4. public morals. The basic moral structure of society. Judges have occasionally said that they retain a general overriding discretion to punish as crimes behaviour that is destructive of public morals but it is not at all clear to what extent they should do so.

  5. Public morality, like public health and safety, is a concern that goes beyond considerations of law and public policy. Public morals are affected, for good or ill, by the activities of private (in the sense of “nongovernmental”) parties, and such parties have obligations in respect to it.

  6. As traditionally understood, the ‘police powers’ of government extend to the protection of public health, safety, and morals. Legislation to protect public morals prohibits or restricts acts and practices judged to be damaging to the character and moral well-being of persons who engage in them or who may be induced to engage in them by the ...

  7. definition, public morality is the set of standards prescribing right conduct within social-cultural organization. It is the morality exemplified by the system of social roles that makes up social-cultural organization. Thus, in so far as one can define systems of social roles, public morality is present as the standards prescribed by these roles.

  8. PUBLIC MORALS meaning | Definition, pronunciation, translations and examples in American English.

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