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of society. To him the law was a forest in which he could hide and never be found; it was a “causeway upon which, so long as he keeps to it, a citizen may walk safely” (Bolt, p. 89) Thus, with this belief More took every action to not to trap himself but rat ....

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.... finger on it, for then he will be allying with the enemy. He further goes on to show it to Alice and everyone else that the seal has not been broken, thus showing that he has not read the letter. Even in the case of the Maid of Kent, More writes to her “advising her to abstain from meddling with the affairs of Princes and the State” (Bolt, p. 67). As a precaution, More gets it notarized and thus it is evidence in favor of him, not against him. Other then refusing every possible way of being disloyal, More uses silence as his main strategy. “He was a man with a firm sense of his own self. He knew where he began and left off, what area of ....