rule of the sword
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As a result, the rule of law overcame the rule of the sword.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
Instead of society itself having conquered a new point, only the State appears to have returned to its oldest form, to the simply brazen rule of the sword and the club.
From Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx
It was based on the rule of the sword.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
He abrogated the rule of the sword and annulled the ordinance of “Holy War.”
From Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era by J. E. (John Ebenezer) Esslemont
The thin screen which the continuance of a little knot of representatives had thrown over the rule of the sword was at last torn away.
From History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 by John Richard Green
