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n. - The quality of failing to conform to law.

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  • Like Hamdi, he's relenquished his U.S. citizenship by implication, and by his admissions while in the brig, he's established the "unlawfulness" and the "enemy combatant"...
  • Pius XII did warn in his speech of the "unlawfulness" of cosmetic surgery undertaken for
  • Yeah, I would say we probably have reasonable suspicion that some kind of unlawfulness is afoot somewhere in Gonzales’s statement.
  • Why must they proclaim the unlawfulness of slavery?
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