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Alexander Bickel

Alexander Mordecai Bickel (1924–1974) was an American legal scholar and expert on the United States Constitution. One of the most influential constitutional commentators of the twentieth century, his writings emphasize judicial restraint.

December 17, 1924 - November 8, 1974

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[The judiciary is] the least dangerous branch of our government. — © Alexander Bickel

[The judiciary is] the least dangerous branch of our government.

Alexander Bickel

Alexander Bickel

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.

Alexander Bickel

Alexander Bickel

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