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If not, then there is another clause in the constitution set at nought,--that clause which declares that no person shall be “subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb.
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Mann highlights a constitutional principle against double jeopardy, advocating for legal protections.
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Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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