On the record
Mark another particular in which the provisions of the law go beyond the requirements of the constitution.
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Mann points out that certain laws exceed constitutional requirements, indicating a legal overreach.
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They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
He that chooses to employ a sort of labor that yields only half as much to the hand as another sort would yield, makes a choice that is not only unprofitable, but deeply injurious to his interest.
What rights are more sacred or more dear to us than the conjugal and the parental?
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