Literary notes about coercion (AI summary)
In literature, coercion serves as a multifaceted concept that ranges from a governmental tool of control to a subtle psychological force. Authors employ the term to question the legitimacy and limits of state power, as when sovereignty is challenged by the right to exercise coercion ([1], [2]), or to illustrate coercion as a legally sanctioned measure imposed on wrongdoers ([3], [4]). At the same time, it is often depicted as an external imposition that conflicts with individual autonomy, thereby highlighting the tension between freedom and compulsion ([5], [6]). In narrative works, the impact of coercion is explored not only in public policies and social orders but also in personal relationships and inner struggles, underscoring its dual nature as both an instrument of force and a catalyst for moral and physical liberation ([7], [8], [9]).
- How can those States be sovereignties which admit a power above them, possessing the right of coercion?
— from Fort Lafayette or, Love and Secession A Novel by Benjamin Wood - [130] The latter do not, however, require, for this reason, to submit themselves like individuals in the state of nature to public laws and coercion.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant - I am for coercion by law, that coercion which acts only upon delinquent individuals.”
— from John Marshall and the Constitution, a Chronicle of the Supreme Court by Edward Samuel Corwin - I am for coercion by law; that coercion which acts only upon delinquent individuals.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple - In brief: The categories "coercion" and "compulsion" cannot be applied to the will.
— from Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente - Anything approaching coercion or excessive urging should, of course, be avoided, because moral violence should not be done to the child's will.
— from What Shall I Be? A Chat With Young People by Francis Bernard Cassilly - Often too his thoughts wandered away on their own solitary excursions, and only came back to her under coercion.
— from The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann - Julian had somehow shuffled away his fear in his coercion of Tommy.
— from Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales by Arthur Shearly Cripps - My real protest is for liberty both to mind and body, and against coercion of any kind, material or spiritual.
— from My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper
