Laws were made to be broken.

Christopher North

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Breaking the law Law

Author

Christopher North

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Blackwood's Magazine

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Magazine

Language

English

Time

1830 1830s 19th century

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Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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North, Christopher. "Noctes Ambrosianae." Blackwood's Magazine, May 1830.

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Hegel, G. W. F. Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte [Lectures on the Philosophy of World History]. c. 1830, University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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Hegel, G. W. F. Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, translated by H. B. Nisbet. Cambridge University Press, 1981.

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Where-ever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

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