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.
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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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