Critics targeted monarchical super-power behind justice’s mixed weaknesses and excesses.

Evidence

It was not so much, or not only, the privileges of justice, its arbitrariness, its archaic arrogance, its uncontrolled rights that were criticized; but rather the mixture of its weaknesses and excesses, its exaggerations and its loopholes, and above all the very principle of this mixture, the ‘super-power’ of the monarch. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 135

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Justice was paralyzed by badly distributed, over-concentrated power. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 133; The justice system’s perceived failures often lead to political interference. — Lynley Hood, A City Possessed, 3260

Related

• Justice was paralyzed by badly distributed, over-concentrated power. (similarity 0.89)
• The justice system’s perceived failures often lead to political interference. (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Justice was paralyzed by badly distributed, over-concentrated power. #corroborates (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 133
• The justice system’s perceived failures often lead to political interference. #expands (0.75) — Lynley Hood, A City Possessed, 3260