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Quote by Alexander Bickel
We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge righ

We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong…. There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them. – Alexander Bickel

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