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It means that no other government, no other body of men whatever, shall have concurrent power of legislation over the District; nor, indeed, any subordinate power, except what may be derived from Congress.
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Mann clarifies the meaning of 'exclusive' legislative power in relation to the District of Columbia.
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Whoever intercepts knowledge, therefore, on its passage to a human soul; whoever strikes down the hand that is outstretched to grasp it, is guilty of one of the most heinous of offences.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
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