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Without civil society, each man would have a right to preserve his own rights and to redress his own wrongs.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Without civil society, each man would have a right to preserve his own rights and to redress his own wrongs.”
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Mann argues that without civil society, individuals would have to take justice into their own hands.
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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.
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.
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
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