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“Moreover, as the coercive procession of the state increases, the public appeal of the state’s procession diminishes, and so, as the procession of the state has become more and more powerful, the authority of the state has progressively weakened, and the reason is very obvious. A morally bankrupt power has very little to parade except its guns, and the modern state is a morally bankrupt power.”

— R. J. Rushdoony