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Was it a quality inherent in women, or did they just learn to shield their personal regrets, to suspend their lives, subsume themselves in child care?

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In other situations, however, a president’s refusal to enforce an unconstitutional statute might not be judicially reviewable. No judge, for example, could have obliged President Jefferson to prosecute speakers who had violated the Sedition Act of 1798, an act that Jefferson deemed unconstitutional. The president’s greater power to pardon subsumed the lesser power to simply decline prosecution.

Akhil Reed Amar. America's Constitution: A Biography (2005)