Customary Law

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“There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.”
—Suzanne Lafollette (1893–1983)

“I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)