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“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.”

Quote by Alexander Bickel

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Alexander Bickel

Alexander Bickel, born on December 17, 1924, and died on November 8, 1974, was a scholar of an unknown profession or category. His life experience and contributions are not clearly documented. more

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