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Once free, always free,”--such is the maxim of justice and jurisprudence.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Once free, always free,”--such is the maxim of justice and jurisprudence.”
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Sumner asserts that once a person is free, they must always remain free, reflecting a principle of justice.
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