Strict enforcement of laws, especially with regard to controlling crime. This policy was first expounded by the Greek philosopher Aristotle in his Politics: “Law means good order.” However, it also acquired a bad name among those who point to its association with infringements of civil rights in the mid-1900s. More than a century earlier Rhode Island had a restrictive property qualification for voters. A Suffrage Party was formed and led a rebellion in 1842; its opponents were called the “Law and Order” party. The term was also used in 1881 with reference to maintaining law and order in Ireland (surely a controversial issue), and became a cliché in the course of several mid-twentieth-century American political campaigns. The British journal The Economist commented in 1968, “Mr Nixon . . . and Mr Humphrey are both making concessions to this overriding concern about law and order.” In the 1990s the term had largely lost its repressive connotation. A popular television series entitled Law and Order dealt with the cooperative crime-fighting efforts of police officers and lawyers.