 | Avril McDonald - History - 2006 - 894 pages
...which ceases to obey the sovereign and is strong enough to make a stand against him, or when a Republic is divided into two opposite factions, and both sides take up arms, there exists a civil war. ... Civil war breaks the bonds of society and of government, or at least... | |
 | United States - 1864 - 1202 pages
...law, of the rules of that law so far as they apply to civil war. He says : " When, iu a republic, the nation is divided into two opposite factions, and...both sides take up arms, this is called a civil war. * * * * A civil war breaks the bands of society and government ; or, at least, suspends their force... | |
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When a party is formed in a State who no longer obey the sovereign, and are possessed of sufficient strength to oppose him — or when, in a Republic, the nation is divided into two opposite factions, and both sides take up arms — this is called a civil... 
