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In early societies it matters much more that the law should be fixed than that it should be good.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “In early societies it matters much more that the law should be fixed than that it should be good.”
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Bagehot argues that in early societies, the stability of law is more important than its quality.
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