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Yet whether the law be constitutional or not, is the very question to be determined.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Yet whether the law be constitutional or not, is the very question to be determined.”
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Mann emphasizes that the constitutionality of the law is the central issue that needs resolution.
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