English rule-of-law ideology rationalized large-scale attacks on Native communities

Evidence

Because the English subscribed to the principles of the rule of law and the primacy of property rights, they used isolated crimes by Native men as rationalizations for large-scale attacks on Native communities. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 466

Categorization

• QUESTION: A striking inversion: adherence to rule-of-law and property rights produced pretext-driven mass violence, not restraint. Worth comparing to how the project argues slavery was rationalized through law.
• XREF: connects to: Generalized anti-foreign attacks historically precede targeting a group as a unique racial menace — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 518; the MOC “The Violence That Builds: How Modern Order Is Forged, Not Broken, by Force”