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"Rather than offering definitions of the state, political scientists prefer to identify its characteristic features, such as the possession of "organized police powers, defined spatial boundaries, or a formal judiciary . . . [and] a deep and abiding association between the state as a form of social organization and warfare as a political and economic policy."2 I regard monopoly of the legitimate use of force as the quintessential characteristic of the modern state."
- Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.)

"Wade, brought back the death penalty, reduced the rights of detainees against police powers, prevented doctors in federally supported family planning clinics from giving women information on abortions, and said that poor people could be forced to pay for public education (education was not "a fundamental right"). Justices William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall were the last of the Court's liberals. Old and ill, though reluctant to give up the fight, they retired. The final act to create a conservative Supreme Court was President Bush's nomination to replace Marshall."
- Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.)

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