Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice. (Bertrand Russell)

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice.

Bertrand Russell

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