No society, certainly not a large and heterogenous one, can fail in time to explode if it is deprived of the arts of compromise, if it knows no ways of muddling through. No good society can be unprincipled; and no viable society can be principle-ridden.

Alexander M. Bickel

The Least Dangerous Branch

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Topic

Political compromise

Author

Alexander M. Bickel

Source

The Least Dangerous Branch

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Lawyer Scholar Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Bickel, Alexander M. The Least Dangerous Branch: The Supreme Court at the Bar of Politics. The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1962, ch. 2.

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