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Secondary authority - Legal encyclopedias, treatises, legal texts, law review articles, and citators. Writings which set forth the opinion of the writer as to the law.
Secondary Authority:
Sources which explain or describe the "law." Examples include encyclopedias and law journal articles.
Secondary Victim: ...
Despite its secondary authority, many later reform movements have quoted the Declaration in support of their cause, including movements for universal suffrage, abolition of slavery, women's rights, and civil rights for African Americans.
 See also: State, Authority, United states, Opinion, Law
  
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