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Yet what need would there ever be of corrupting witnesses or suborning counsel, if a party could get bodily possession and absolute control of his antagonist himself?
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Yet what need would there ever be of corrupting witnesses or suborning counsel, if a party could get bodily possession…”
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Mann argues that physical control over a person inherently undermines their ability to defend themselves in legal matters.
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Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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