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What does it mean?
Sometimes achieving goals may require actions outside established legal frameworks.
In plain terms
Other ways besides official laws might be needed.
What can you take from it?
Extra-legal methods can be justified in extreme cases.

Where it applies

  • political crises
  • reforms
  • upheavals

Putting it to work

  • policy making
  • revolutionary strategy

Questions to consider

  • When is breaking the law acceptable?
  • Who decides necessity?

Another view

Using extra-legal methods undermines the rule of law.

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