Political Quotes

Horace Mann: “There has been no “due” process of law to reduce him to this miserable condition; there has been no process of law at…”

On the record
There has been no “due” process of law to reduce him to this miserable condition; there has been no process of law at all.
Said by
Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Mann argues that the lack of due process has led to the unjust condition of slavery.

Share

More from Horace Mann

Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?

gutenberg.org

Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.

gutenberg.org

My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.

gutenberg.org

The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

gutenberg.org

Other voices in this conversation