The following is a quote from a commentary published in the New York Law Journal in October 2021: “Respect for law is a basic tenet of democracy and the integrity of our judicial system. But the right to defy an unconstitutional law is also basic to our constitutional structure.”

That is a big, beautiful, provocative idea, which I’d love to mull over—but I’m only here to talk about words. Specifically, today, the word tenet.

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