The rough idea is that state action is an unjustifiable exercise of force by an unjustifiably privileged few unless those who wield state power have been authorised to do so by those most likely to be affected by it.
"It would appear," Dallas wrote, "that the Judicial power of the United States has been resisted, the liberty of the press has been suspended, & the Consul and subjects of a friendly Government have been exposed to great inconvenience, by an exercise of Military force and command".
It is sadly ironic, then, that the conservatives in Congress who shut down the government thereby turned away from principles and persuasion to a purely Machiavellian exercise of brute force.
In other words, if America has an effective monopoly on the exercise of military force, other countries should be able to set aside the distractions of arming and plotting against each other and put their energies into producing consumer electronics, textiles, tea.
Neverbend submits, vainly protesting against this exercise of brute force, and is informed that the island is to be made a Crown colony again, with a new governor to ensure that the law of the Fixed Period, unacceptable to the mother country, is repealed, while he himself must go into exile in England.
The two Presidents seem to have fundamentally different starting points about how much can be achieved by the exercise of U.S. force.
What they offered in return to their subject citizens was the hope of eliminating anarchic civil violence by the exercise of superior force.
Villanueva and Orozco feared for their lives because they did not know who was chasing them, Kiesel said, adding that law enforcement has never been "so brazen in their exercise of deadly force".
Not unlike police forces today, with their martial law training drills on American soil, militarized weapons and "shoot first, ask questions later" mindset, the Roman soldier had "the exercise of lethal force at his fingertips" with the potential of wreaking havoc on normal citizens' lives.
The reason that the culture-at-large tends to view this weakness as virtuous is because it often demonstrates an exercise of force that has specific results.
