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We’re getting to a place where respect for liberty is going to require stretching some necks. Nothing short of that seems to get the attention of some people.

Excerpt from Robert A. Heinlein's writing:

Some aspects of history seem to be taboo. I've given up trying to find out what happened in 1965: "The Year They Hanged the Lawyers." When I asked a librarian for a book on that year and decade, he wanted to know why I needed access to records in locked vaults. I left without giving my name. There is free speech -- but some subjects are not discussed. Since they are never defined, we try to be careful.
But there is no category "Lawyers" in the telephone book.

This is the description of an other Earth analogue, in an alternate universe, in a different United States, they nicknamed Beulahland.

It was pastoral, libertarian, and mostly very dull. The history was slightly different from the crew's homeworld: There was no slavery, but much indenture; and sometime in the 16th century the oceans had risen considerably, changing the coastlines and much of the political situation.