"The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish!"
Partial contents: Perversion of Law; Plunder; Non-Conformists; Voting; Conflict; Socialism; Charity; Education; Conformity; Dictatorship; Justice; Rights; Liberty.
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