I suppose no one will deny that the positive prohibitions, against the exercise of certain enumerated powers, apply to Congress, when legislating for this District, just as much as when legislating for the union at large.
Mann emphasizes that the Constitution's prohibitions apply equally to Congress in all jurisdictions, including D.C.
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Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
What rights are more sacred or more dear to us than the conjugal and the parental?
Yet, by denying education to the slave, you destroy not merely the right, but the power, of personal examination in regard to all that most nearly concerns the soul’s interests.
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