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It would conflict with that “summary manner” in which it is deemed expedient to dispose of human liberty.
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Mann argues against the expedited legal processes that undermine human liberty, emphasizing the moral implications of such practices.
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Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
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