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Originally Posted by HarryT
Isn't an "illegal law" a contradiction in terms, by the way? No law can be illegal. It can be unjust; in your country it can be deemed to be unconstitutional and revoked. But by definition it cannot be illegal.
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While avoiding the overall discussion entirely, I would like to address this one point.
While it's rarely put in terms of being "illegal," an unconstitutional law could, I think, be properly said to be "illegal," but it's a finicky definition.
Because the Constitution is, effectively, the the foundational "law" (though, again, rarely called by that term) of the U.S., anything that violates it is contrary to that "law," or illegal.
So, while not commenting on the current discussion directly, I'd agree conceptually that any law which is unconstitutional, is an "illegal law." Though, I probably wouldn't actually use that expression myself.
