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This reads as a statement about how law should answer to the public will, not drift away from it. Wendy Long points to the idea that judges are meant to apply rules that citizens have already accepted, so the line can be taken as a defense of democratic legitimacy in the courts. It lands in debates about rulings that seem to ignore the social or political consent behind them.
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Originally said in English.
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