Meaning of lawkeeping | Babel Free

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The act of preserving the law.

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Examples

““Secundra Bagh” operates as a historical trope in just this still-vital dialectical sense: for a frozen instant that it marks as such (recall the twitch of diachrony registered in the moving horse), this image puts into contact two apparently exclusive narratives—the stories of imperial lawkeeping and genocidal extermination, of a “Mutiny” and a “War for Independence,” of “our” peacekeeping and “their” unredeemed death—without enabling the matter to be settled into any (self-identical) thesis or meaning.”

“Marasi is always talking about things like that, he thought. How the lawkeeping of the future will be about statistics, not shotguns. He tried to imagine a world where murders were prevented by careful civic planning, and found himself unable to see it. People would always kill.”

“The 176 verses of Psalm 119 celebrate the greatness and privilege of lawkeeping. “I delight in your commands because I love them,” the writer exults (verse 47). For such legalists as the Pharisees, however, the law wasn’t kept out of love for God or man, but out of greed and fear.”

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