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It's My Right: Understanding Natural Rights and the Purpose of Politics| Father Dominic Legge, O.P.

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The Implications of Unlawful Laws

LZ Granderson: Is it possible to have a law that is in some sense illegal? He says Martin Luther King talks about the law making something illegal that should be legal. LZ: We can understand that even in our own system by thinking about like our federal system of laws, he says. "We're very familiar with the principle that if Congress or if a state passes a law that conflicts with the Constitution, then it's an illegal law"

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