Charles Sumner: “Ascending from the individual to corporations, guilds, villages, towns, counties, provinces, we find that for a long…”

“Ascending from the individual to corporations, guilds, villages, towns, counties, provinces, we find that for a long period each of these bodies exercised what was called “the Right of War.” The history of France and Germany shows how reluctantly this mode of trial yielded to the forms of reason and order.”