Justice was paralyzed by badly distributed, over-concentrated power.
Evidence
The paralysis of justice was due not so much to a weakening as to a badly regulated distribution of power, to its concentration at a certain number of points and to the conflicts and discontinuities that resulted. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 133
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: A swarm of subsidiary authorities fragments judicial power to punish — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 60; Critics targeted monarchical super-power behind justice’s mixed weaknesses and excesses. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 135