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The most important phrase though is the "tolerable administration of 
justice."   Without the institutional framework of the state, with an 
articulation of property and contract rights and a credible mechanism of 
enforcement all is reduced to a Hobbesian state of nature. 
 
Fred Carstensen 
 
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