compulsory

(adjective)

Required; obligatory; mandatory

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Examples of compulsory in the following topics:

  • Attempts to Improve Voter Turnout

    • Furthermore, compulsory voting may infringe on other rights.
    • Compulsory voting ensures a large voter turnout.
    • Red: Compulsory voting, enforced.
    • Pink: Compulsory voting, not enforced.
    • Orange: Compulsory voting, enforced (only men).

  • Child Labor

    • These laws were often paired with compulsory education laws which were designed to keep children in school and out of the paid labor market until a specified age (usually 12, 14, or 16 years.)
    • Alongside the abolition of child labor, compulsory education laws also kept children out of abusive labor conditions.
    • However, by 1900, 34 states had compulsory schooling laws, 4 of which were in the South. 30 states with compulsory schooling laws required attendance until age 14 (or higher).

  • Liquidation

    • Liquidation may either be compulsory (sometimes referred to as a 'creditors' liquidation') or voluntary (sometimes referred to as a 'shareholders' liquidation', although some voluntary liquidations are controlled by the creditors) .
    • The parties who are entitled by law to petition for the compulsory liquidation of a company vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but generally, a petition may be lodged with the court for the compulsory liquidation of a company by:
    • The grounds upon which one can apply for a compulsory liquidation also vary between jurisdictions, but the normal grounds to enable an application to the court for an order to compulsorily wind-up the company are:

  • The Sixth Amendment

    • In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

  • Homeschooling

    • In the United States education is compulsory.
    • Every state has some form of a compulsory attendance law that requires children in a certain age range to spend a specific amount of time being educated.
    • In other states, the requirements for homeschooling are set by the particular parameters of the compulsory attendance statute.
    • These states' compulsory attendance laws do not make any specific reference to "homeschooling. " Homeschools in New Jersey, Maryland, for example, fall into this category.

  • The Eugenics

    • The first state to introduce a compulsory sterilization bill was Michigan in 1897, but the proposed law failed to garner enough votes by legislators to be adopted.
    • In 1907, Indiana passed the first eugenics-based compulsory sterilization law in the world.
    • Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a Virginia law allowing for the compulsory sterilization of patients of state mental institutions in 1927.

  • The Role of Government

    • Publicly funded healthcare systems are usually financed in one of two ways: through taxation or via compulsory national health insurance.
    • In compulsory insurance models, healthcare is financed from some combination of employees' salary deductions, employers' contributions, and possibly additional state funds.

  • Income Security Policy and Policy Making

    • That a compulsory government program, not the private market, provides unemployment insurance can be explained using the concepts of adverse selection and moral hazard.
    • "A compulsory government program avoids the adverse selection problem.

  • Line and Staff Structure

    • Staff positions can have four kinds of authority: "advice authority," with line managers choosing whether to seek advice from the staff person, and what to do with it once they get it; "compulsory advice" or "compulsory consultation" in which line managers must consider the staff person's advice, but can choose not to heed it; "concurrent authority," in which the line manager cannot finalize a decision without the agreement of the staff person, and "functional authority" in which the staff person has complete formal authority over his or her area of specialty.

  • Education Policy

    • Towards the 20th century, states started passing laws that made schooling compulsory.
    • Child education is compulsory.