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They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.
Alexander Bickel

Born: December 17, 1924
Died: November 8, 1974 (aged 49)
Bio: Alexander Mordecai Bickel was a law professor and expert on the United States Constitution. One of the most influential constitutional commentators of the twentieth century, his writings emphasize judicial restraint.
Known for:
- The Morality of Consent
- The Supreme Court and the idea of progress (1970)
- Politics and the Warren Court (1965)






