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Thomas Healy is Professor of Law and Seton Hall Law School and author of The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind—and Changed the History of Free Speech in America.
At the Supreme Court, majority rules. Yet dissents have drastically changed the institution—and the country.
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