The answer appears on the forty-first page of the book.

I read down through her scrabbly writing and all her fancy phrases.

It was not from the want of proper laws that dangerous principles had been disseminated, and had assumed a threatening aspect, but because those laws had not been employed by the executive power to remedy the evil, and to punish the offenders.

This looked incredibly cool, and borrowed visually from video games and from the YouTube microgenre of shopping-cart crashes.