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[sortagreen]

the idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible principle of republican government), has no place but in the reveries of those political doctors whose sagacity disdains the admonitions of experimental instruction.

In other words... It's kind of fanciful to expect that everyone will obey the law.

For good or ill, the state retains a monopoly on violence.