> If the law was bad, does it make it okay to violate it? St. Augustine: "an unjust law is no law at all." John Marshall, in Marbury v. Madison: "a law repugn

> If the law was bad, does it make it okay to violate it? St. Augustine: "an unjust law is no law at all." John Marshall, in Marbury v. Madison: "a law repugnant to the constitution is void." This is actually a fairly well established principle in common law. So, yes.