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But there is another prohibition in the constitution every whit as full and explicit as any of these.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “But there is another prohibition in the constitution every whit as full and explicit as any of these.”
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Mann identifies another explicit prohibition in the Constitution that protects individual rights.
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