Parens patriae intervention:
Only a sovereign (meaning, in the United States, a state government) can intervene as parens patriae, acting as the “'general guardian of all infants, lunatics, idiots.’” Fontain v. Ravenel, 58 U.S. 369 392-93 (1854) (Taney, J. concurring)(citing 3 W. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 48 (1769)).
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