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Justice Stephen Breyer on the Importance of Civics Education

We the People

CHAPTER

Do You Think It's Important for Citizens to Follow Decisions That They Contradict?

"I think it's a good thing that in Bush v. Gore people followed it without throwing stones and guns," Obama says of the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage. "The rule of law is a weapon, not the only one, but it is one weapon that human beings have developed ... to keep that plague germ in its place in remission suppressed," he adds. 'In everybody there is something bad, and there are a whole lot of things that are good'

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