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Lawyers and laymen alike speak of the rule of law in reverential tones. Those of us who have investigated societies where it either has never existed or has collapsed recognize with a peculiar intensity the appropriateness of the tone. When law becomes the whim of the leader or the high command, however initially benign or well-intentioned, we are in the jungle where terror will eventually become a natural state.
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© 1988 Ernest van den Haag and Tom J. Farer
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Farer, T.J. (1988). Perspectives. In: U. S. Ends and Means in Central America. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5966-9_1
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