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“Nullification is not a 'defense' recognized by law, but rather a mechanism that permits a jury, as community conscience, to disregard the strict requirements of law where it finds that those requirements cannot justly be applied in a particular case.”

Law Community Cases Particular Conscience Defense Permit Mechanism Strict Requirements Jury Disregard Nullification

Author:David L. Bazelon

“It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of "laws" to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.”

Book Would Be Law Found Written Notion Conception Disregard Statutes Gloss Jurisprudence

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the law. Detestation of existing policies is easily transformed into forcible resistance of the authority which puts them in execution, and it would be folly to disregard the causal relation between the two. Yet to assimilate agitation, legitimate as such, with direct incitement to violent resistance, is to disregard the tolerance of all methods of political agitation which in normal times is a safeguard of free government.”

Source: The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand

“Celestial marriage is for the fullness of the glory of god. It is the crowning glory. A man has no right to one wife unless he is worthy of two.... There is no provision made for those who have had the chance & opperternity and have disregarded that law. Men who disregard that law are in the same situation as if they broke any other law. they are transgressors.”

Ifs Men Made Two Law Chance Situation Wife Glory Worthy Broke Fullness Provision Celestial Glory Of God Disregard Polygamy Disregarded Crowning Glory

Author:Francis M. Lyman

“The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all laws.”

Law Evil Worst Disregard

Book:Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964; chronology-documents-bibliographical aids

Source: Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964; chronology-documents-bibliographical aids

“Celibacy is not natural to men or to women; all bodily needs require their legitimate satisfaction, and celibacy is a disregard of natural law.”

Men Needs Law Natural Satisfaction Sexuality Disregard Natural Law Celibacy

Book:The Law of Population: Its Consequences and Its Bearing Upon Human Conduct and Morals

Source: The Law of Population: Its Consequences and Its Bearing Upon Human Conduct and Morals