We tend to view law not as aimed at creating individual or common good but as a means of mediating dispute and
keeping civil peace.
Not exact matches
We send our sons and daughters to suit up for armed services to defend the U. S. of A. or other defenseless countries from the influences and ravages of moral depravity (wickedness); or our
civil authorities who, by God's design, arm themselves daily to
keep order and
peace, to avenge and bring retribution to wrongdoers (Rom.
A United Nations
Peace Keeping Force to monitor a cease - fire is better than a
civil war, but the members of that U.N. Force may have to shoot in self - defense.
Liberia's police and army are overseeing election security for the first time since the
civil war following a handover from UN peacekeepers last year, and though underfunded have
kept the
peace during the campaign.