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Now, he who has power to take and authenticate evidence, which it is predetermined shall be “conclusive” in the case, has power to decide the case.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Now, he who has power to take and authenticate evidence, which it is predetermined shall be “conclusive” in the case…”
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Mann argues that the power to authenticate evidence equates to having the power to decide legal cases.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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