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All judges of an honorable name, all courts in all civilized communities, have recognized a broad distinction in the principles of interpreting law.
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Mann asserts that judges and courts recognize a fundamental distinction in interpreting laws related to life and liberty.
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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.
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.
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