ARMED LITIGANTS
" The modern world represents a closely-packed community, each member of which goes about highly armed. It intends to remain highly armed. The question is, under what system are the guns least likely to be brought into play—a system in which each is told that he must look to himself and himself alone to assert his rights, be his own judge of what those rights are when trouble arises, and use his weapons as he sees fit —or a system tin which the members are pledged only to use their arms in support of the law and the .common authority and in restraint of the law-breaker. Is it better, in other words, to arm the law or arm the rival litigants , And just now the popular reply is that you are more likely to get peace if you arm the litigants, and leave the law unarmed."—Mr Norman Angell.
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Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3182, 26 May 1932, Page 6
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149ARMED LITIGANTS Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3182, 26 May 1932, Page 6
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