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Quote from Justice William O. Douglas,

When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all.



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Justice William O. Douglas (more quotes by Justice William O. Douglas or books by/about Justice William O. Douglas)


(1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court Justice

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Disobedience, Force, Law

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