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Martin Luther King Jr. and Natural Law

Martin Luther King Jr. and Natural Law
Martin Luther King Jr. (C) leading a march from Selma to Montgomery to protest lack of voting rights for African Americans. In 1963, King wrote 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' setting out his justification for breaking the law. Steve Schapiro/Corbis via Getty Images
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As the nation takes off work and school for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Jan. 21, some will justly remember his famous “I Have a Dream” speech delivered in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial. Delivered to hundreds of thousands of civil-rights supporters, that speech became the kind of cultural touchstone that comes to summarize a movement and sinks into society in a way that unites people.
Gary L. Gregg
Gary L. Gregg
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Gary L. Gregg is director of the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville and editor of “Securing Democracy—Why We have an Electoral College.”
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