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If there could have been a doubt in 1859 of the validity of this interpretation, the doubt has been removed by the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Boutwell argues that the Fourteenth Amendment clarifies the interpretation of constitutional rights for territories.
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By the amendment of 1865 freedom and equality in government were guaranteed to all and especially to the negro race in America.
Here are the assertion of power and the promise of goodness that have attended the origin and movement of every despotism that has risen to curse mankind.
If the negroes in America are entitled to freedom from a state of subserviency, are not the colored races in the Philippines entitled to freedom, and that whether they are under the Constitution or beyond its jurisdiction?
They assert supreme authority over their fellow-men for an indefinite period of time, and they promise therewith good government.
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