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John Thomas Noonan Jr. was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. October 1926 – 17. April 2017
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“Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs.”

John T. Noonan Jr.

Part V, Chapter 21, p. 692
Bribes 1984

“In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine.”

John T. Noonan Jr.

Part I, Chapter 4, p. 88
Bribes 1984

“The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.”

John T. Noonan Jr.

Introduction, p. xi
Bribes 1984

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