The right to dissent is essential to freedom – that only when all views are heard can citizens make informed decisions, and only when minority voices are empowered can we find the best ideas. To recapitulate from two of the most important jurisprudence of our time, if people are stripped naked of their rights as human beings, democracy cannot survive and the government becomes meaningless. A democracy is only as secure as its elections. It is only as resilient as the faith of its people in its mechanisms for suffrage.

Thus, even with the continuous misinformation and burning down of history, may we all strive hardest to protect the principles of our democracy, unceasingly uphold the value of our freedoms, and perpetually embrace only unembellished history.

The 10th volume of the Bedan Law Review aims to capture its tagline by not only discussing topics that encapsulate the heart of democracy, but mostly, to dissent on certain matters, debate on important things, and reprobate laws or the lack of it.