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Moreover, the law of the land is not irrevocable ; ;
it can be changed ; ;
it has been, many times.
Mr. Justice Taney's Dred Scott decision in 1857 was unpopular in the North, and soon became a dead letter.
Prohibition was the law of the land, but it was unpopular ( how many of us oldsters took up drinking in prohibition days, drinking was so gay, so fashionable, especially in the sophisticated Northeast!!
) and was repealed.
The cliche loses its talismanic virtue in the light of a little history.
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