Editing Argumentum ad baculum (section)

==Examples==
The ''[[Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]'' gives this example of ''argumentum ad baculum'':
: If you don't join our demonstration against the expansion of the park, we will [[Eviction|evict]] you from your apartment;
: So, you should join our demonstration against the expansion of the park.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Hansen |first=Hans |year=2020 |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |editor-link=Edward N. Zalta |title=Fallacies |encyclopedia=[[Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]] |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2020/entries/fallacies/ |edition=Summer 2020 |access-date=2023-05-16}}</ref>

The phrase has also been used to describe [[caning of Charles Sumner|the 1856 caning]] of [[Charles Sumner]], an [[abolitionist]] Senator, by one of his pro-slavery opponents, [[Preston Brooks]], on the floor of the [[United States Senate]].<ref>{{cite magazine |date=1877-12-29 |title=American Notes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZtQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA622 |magazine=[[The Illustrated London News]] |volume=LXXI |issue=2009 |page=622 |access-date=2021-06-24 |quote=...that uncompromising [[Charles Sumner|Sumner]] whose eloquence exasperated a fiery Southerner into the employment of the ''argumentum ad baculum''...}}</ref>