Law can not rise above its source in good citizenship--in what right-minded men most earnestly believe and desire.
Herbert Hoover: “Law can not rise above its source in good citizenship--in what right-minded men most earnestly believe and desire.”
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Hoover believes that the legitimacy of law is rooted in the moral beliefs of good citizens.
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