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It was one of the boasts of Magna Charta that justice should be denied to no person,--“Nulli negabimus justitiam”; but under this rule it is denied to a whole race.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “It was one of the boasts of Magna Charta that justice should be denied to no person,--“Nulli negabimus justitiam”; but…”
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Sumner invokes the principles of Magna Carta to illustrate the denial of justice to an entire race.
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