A strict but just discipline
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D. Antonio de Mariz, que os conhecia, havia estabelecido entre elles uma disciplina militar rigorosa, mas justa; a sua lei era a vontade do chefe; o seu dever a obediencia passiva, o seu direito uma parte igual na metade dos lucros.
Dom Antônio de Mariz, who knew them, had established among them a strict but fair military discipline: their law was the chief's will; their duty, passive obedience; their right, an equal share in half the profits.
Dom Antônio, who knew them, had set among them a strict but fair military discipline: their law was the chief's will; their duty, passive obedience; their right, an equal share in half the profits.
The little state's constitution is given in three balanced clauses — law, duty, right — the prose itself as ordered as the regime it describes. Alencar makes the absolutism palatable by making it fair: the chief's will is total, but the profit is shared, and the source's stray space before a comma is the only thing out of place.
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