Many states, like California, make bar membership mandatory for lawyers and charge bar associations with the regulation of lawyers.

The British National Union of Students, with its mandatory membership, would have astonished him.

Membership is open to everyone, not just Army personnel, nor is membership mandatory for soldiers.

Lawyers are always free to form voluntary associations of their own, apart from any licensing or mandatory membership that may be required by the laws of their jurisdiction.

Danby favoured strict interpretation of the penal laws, enforcing mandatory membership of the Church of England.

They also established organizations with mandatory membership, such as the Hitler Youth, Bund Deutscher Mädel and Arbeitsdienst.

Thus, unions rely on crutches like "exclusive" bargaining agency rights, mandatory membership or compulsory dues.

In 1939 the Oklahoma Supreme Court reorganized the association and made membership mandatory to practice law in Oklahoma.

Although all states have school board associations, New Jersey and Washington State are the only two with mandatory membership.

Unfortunately, this principle of mandatory membership did not obtain a majority in the Council of Ministers.