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Cultured in law, and with aptitude sharpened by its contests, too easily he finds a legal reason for an illegal judgment.
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Sumner critiques the tendency of lawyers to rationalize unjust decisions through legal reasoning.
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Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
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