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- noun Excessive interference.
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- noun
Excessive interference .
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Examples
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Government overmeddling is why drugs are so expensive, somehow additional government overmeddling will ensure that drugs are cheap.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Federal Government is Prohibiting Me from Becoming a Billionaire: 2009
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A government strictly limited in its powers and attributions, required to hold its hands from overmeddling, and to let most things go on without its assuming the part of guardian or director, is not to the taste of such a people; in their eyes the possessors of authority can hardly take too much upon themselves, provided the authority itself is open to general competition.
Considerations on Representative Government John Stuart Mill 1839
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All of the "crises" result from government overmeddling.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2008
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