Archibald Cox

Public Servant

1912-05-17 – 2004-05-29

American legal scholar and public servant who played a central role in constitutional and administrative law. He served as U.S. solicitor general and later as Watergate special prosecutor before being dismissed in the Saturday Night Massacre. He was a longtime professor at Harvard Law School.

Books by Archibald Cox

Cases and materials on labor law
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Freedom of Expression
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The role of the Supreme Court in American government
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Quotes by Archibald Cox

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.
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... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.
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