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work_ztovejweojbn5gx4mup3wx7g4a	Robert E. Goodin	Rough Justice	2019		.pdf	text/html	5087	538	65	Some Vigilance Committees wrote literal constitutions structuring the organizations, containing a statement of purpose and detailing procedures that would govern its activities (see, e.g., the "Regulations and Bye Laws" of the Montana Vigilantes (reprinted in Birney (1929, 218–21)). Note similarly the 1856 San Francisco Vigilance Committee justifying their action saying, "they did right, having in view this grand republican principle—the will of good people should be the law of our land," or a vigilante leader who rose to become Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court asking, "if the people possess the power to appoint one man to hang another, may they not make a court to hang, if need be, another court that they have made?" (quoted in Kirkpatrick 2008, 45, 47, see also introduction and ch.	./cache/work_ztovejweojbn5gx4mup3wx7g4a.pdf	./txt/work_ztovejweojbn5gx4mup3wx7g4a.txt