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are told-a, hundred ,e,alS, of 'Donenf.orcem,ent, n,otw]tJl;$,tan.d.~,nl-!i'net the faintest 'real doubt 'that the [state~ I] ordinances lv'er,e, void under :federn'~, ,~a\,," and that "the defiance of the' ~a,v was. all 0:0. the' othe'f' .'. .1"'"'j'!f.1!!I A t.: 'I;.. ,. .' :SlUJt;'~'" ·,.t :11JFSt ,tJ;1 :anc~'~ me m,e!',its o f'~ twl., " construeuon us seem, cons:~.derable., The ]Ht,isf':s cbie,f djJricull}'f i'D, eonsteu .. i'ng ,I, vompaltibiHt" 0(( ciyi~,d:~sobedi,e'nce! '\i\lith 'the :~:~p!
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svstem,.of the counnv ~ namelv tha,t "the la~N'cannot.. J. - J!'!L.l ~m,t~"'~' 1· ... ..• llL ~ .1 .. Y:I' . ,. ... \.a. .. , t11U~~ brea,iti:ng of [t.he la,lv'/';'o seems .lin1geni(!jllls:~y$o]:v,edl by rtlb.e duality of' Ameriran Iaw and. the ,iden.itlficatlon fJIf CJ;vU disobedie'ilCt, witb. 'tI:U! 'viola,tJ,lo~lof a ~;~W 'f(H'" the purpose of
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testing ih, ,ro[[uitbution~d ity ~ There :is also the added adv,ancage'~or so ,it seems, that because' of 11s dual s,ysrem, Amerlcan law, in d,islincd.();o ffWn, O'tlU!T I,e,gal s,y,sle'ms", has

found a non:fi,ctirio:us,! v,isi,'ble' place fot, th,a:lt 'U,hi"gber la,w~i:i' on 'wilko' "in one' form, .or another JIllI'.is.p:rud'ence' keeps im,..

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,Revtew'J' 4:,a':'i 114; ('Ocl~'Q'ber~!~gGS),. ,

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this, uaforumate and inadequate alternatlve is, pe,dlaps only natural "in 31 period of t[~nn,oil/~ w:tu~n"the d:u;tin,&,

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the true character of the phenomenon, 'Wh.en.. ever the j'ur.~st:s attempt t,o justify ehe ,eivH disobedient O(Fl .roun.d. and legal grounds, they' eon:strg,e' his case' in the linage o:f either the oowcw,le'Htiou$ obterms with and to understand

j ector or the man 'who eests the oonstitutionality 01 a statute. The trouble is that the situation of' the cl'vil. disobedient bears DO a:na],ogyto e'~ther f-O'I" the :sim,:pl:e 'FeaSOD

that be' never exists ,M, a si:ng'le'individual j he can run£itio11. and. survive' onlv as. a member of ,3. ,o~. D.p. 'This 115 seldom P1'r)'" -:\ --, - -- - -.I ... - ~- ..T. , . _I$ .." .. ,_
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