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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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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “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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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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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.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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