Protestantism was imposed – through coercion, spying and disenfranchisement – by a cadre of political opportunists during just three decades of Henry's and then his daughter Elizabeth's reign.
These attempts to create consent went hand in hand with the coercion imposed by the regime through the OVRA and its enormous network of spies.
The concern then is that either the coercion imposed on individuals by the state is morally acceptable, in which case no special compensation is owed to those coerced, or it is morally unacceptable, in which case the coercion should be withdrawn.
Justice Kennedy's question was this: if government subsidies are held to be unavailable to tens of millions of Americans on the federal exchange, would this extremely pinched and hyperliteralist interpretation itself constitute a form of unconstitutional coercion imposed by Congress against the states?
They can only make their victims angry and alienated.Yes, we must describe and criticise those who behave badly, who seek to impose their will by coercion, violence or propaganda; we must speak the truth as we see it.
The system is so thoroughly government-controlled that, across the Atlantic, we imagine it had to have been imposed by fiat, by the coercion of ideological planners bending the system to their will.
A report in the newspaper O Globo described how militias had spread to 11 of Brazil's 26 states, often initially winning over slum residents by killing drug traffickers before imposing their own methods of coercion and control.
The paradigmatic public use of coercion is judicially imposed punishment, capital or otherwise.
Unintended consequences may result from governments imposing their ideas on society by coercion, thereby creating ongoing strife.In "The Wealth of Nations"(1776), Smith's more famous work, he frequently discussed the fragility and moral hazard of paper money, noting that it can disguise the growth of debt and provide an appearance of wealth that is hollow; a devastating "juggling trick".
The Constitution is not a majoritarian document, and there is no "inalienable" right to arbitrarily impose our will on other people, whether through naked coercion or politics masquerading as law.
