"In the Jim Crow South, for example, government failed and indeed refused to protect blacks from extra-legal violence. Given our history, it's stunning we fail to question those who would force upon us a total reliance on the state for defense." | by: | Robert J. Cottrol
Professor at Rutgers School of Law and George Washington University, member of the ACLU and the NAACP |
Source: | A Liberal Democrat’s Lament, The American Enterprise, 1999. |
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