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“And when the minority passes enactments, not by persuading the majority, but through using its power, are we to call that force or not?”“Everything, I think, that men constrain others to do ‘without persuasion,’ whether by enactment or not, is not law, but force.”“It follows then, that whatever the assembled majority, through using its power over the owners of property, enacts without persuasion is not law, but force?”
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 4. E. C. Marchant. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1923.
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