argues that fidelity requires adhering to the original public meaning of the constitutional text at the time it was ratified. To do otherwise, originalists say, is to allow judges to amend the Constitution without following Article V's amendment process.
Civil disobedience—the deliberate, public, nonviolent violation of an unjust law—is often an act of higher fidelity. When Martin Luther King Jr. broke segregation laws, he argued he was not opposing law but calling the legal system back to its own highest principles. As he wrote from the Birmingham jail: "One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." This is fidelity to law’s ideal even while breaking a particular law. fidelity to law meaning
According to Lon Fuller , for a legal system to earn our fidelity, it must meet these eight criteria: argues that fidelity requires adhering to the original