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Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way. ✨ Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). Lincoln on Democracy, p.295, Fordham Univ Press
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