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The question was taken by yeas and nays, and all the Whigs and almost all the Democrats in the general court recorded their names on the side of the constitution and liberty.
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Mann describes the overwhelming support for constitutional principles among the Whigs and Democrats in the Massachusetts legislature.
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But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
The dearest and most precious of all human rights is the right of private judgment in matters of religion.
Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.
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