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Horace Mann: “But if we gather the opinions of disinterested and unbiased men; of those who have no money to make or office to hope…”

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But if we gather the opinions of disinterested and unbiased men; of those who have no money to make or office to hope for through the triumph of the law, then I think the preponderance of opinion is decidedly the other way.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann suggests that unbiased opinions on the law's constitutionality lean against its validity, contrary to popular belief.

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