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What does it mean?
Laws are tools designed to change when circumstances change.
In plain terms
Laws exist to be changed or repealed.
What can you take from it?
Expect legal frameworks to evolve.

Where it applies

  • policy debate
  • legislative process
  • civil disobedience

Putting it to work

  • lobbying
  • legal reform
  • protest

Questions to consider

  • Why do laws change?
  • Who decides when to change laws?

Another view

Some laws need stability to maintain order.

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