The law is meant to be a way in which the public can live together in spite of their differences.

The law is meant to be a way in which the public can live together in spite of their differences.
--James Boyd White(1)
[J]ustice is the relation to the other.
--Jacques Derrida(2)
INTRODUCTION
In 1791 American states were enacting laws against sodomy at the same time they ratified the Bill of Rights, the first ten constitutional amendments meant to safeguard fundamental rights of individuals in a released society.(3) In a March 1789 alphabetic character to James Madison, Thomas Jefferson asserted that a bill of rights was necessary to give the judiciary the power to secure ...

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