A defendant who can plead not guilty escapes total domination

Evidence

Furthermore, the very fact that members of the intellectual opposition can have a trial (though not an open one), can make themselves heard in the courtroom and count upon support outside it, do not confess to anything but plead not guilty, demonstrates that we deal here no longer with total domination. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 52

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• DEFINE: Sharpens the defining feature of total domination: the absence of any space in which the accused can hold to their own account of reality.