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Law Practice

Sep. 22, 2006

Attorney-Fee Measure Would Corrode Government Integrity

As long as human beings have used force on one another, the victorious have made the defeated pay the financial price of the battle.

By Michael A. S. Newman
     
      As long as human beings have used force on one another, the victorious have made the defeated pay the financial price of the battle. To morally justify what amounts to theft, the victors have characterized their appropriation of enemy property as the just imposition of the cost of the war on the party "at fault."
      One example is the "inde...

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