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suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves than compel- ling each to live as seems good to the rest.
This doctrine, set forth by John Stuart Mill in ON LIBERTY (London, 1859; Norton, paper, 1975), was, as he put it, "anything but new." But it is from Mill's stout defense of the individual's rights versus those of society, and from his con- cise discussion of the range of issues in- volved, that the modern debate over the relationship between law and morality can be seen...

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