It is therefore clear that neither the English court nor Cardozo considered the ethics of the doctrine of necessity. They rejected the doctrine because, in effect, they denied that a state of necessity could ever exist.

Let my Country men Read the following Declaration and then determine by the rules of honour and equitie, how far I am concerned in this Calumny.

The government tried to beat down the opposition movement.

But too much can occur in the negative with a paucal meaning when there is no explicit or implicit infinitival complement: I didn't enjoy it too much is simply an informal alterant of I didn't enjoy it very much.