We cannot, by total alliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong. There are good laws and there are 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 1924-1974
Paying Attention
Give me laws and I'll obey them
If my heart tells me it's right
Give me bad laws, I'll fight to change them
With all my mortal might
Laws are made by mortal men
Some upstanding, some not so
So evil laws may trickle in
Before we even know
It's our right and duty to judge them
And our duty to weed them out
That's what a free democracy
Like ours is all about
Marian
February 7, 2010
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