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When push comes to shove, it's about power. F.ex. the desegregation of Arkansas schools [0]. If don't have force to command, you don't have authority.

My point that the very existence of laws (any laws!) is predicated on access to force.

Without force, you can only have those rules to which everyone voluntarily agrees, and continues doing so.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine#National_Gu...



> When push comes to shove, it's about power. F.ex. the desegregation of Arkansas schools [0]. If don't have force to command, you don't have authority.

I would point out that segregation itself was hold by forces. The particular unit went there, because local ones were onthe other side.


Please read the entire entry. What happened after that?




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