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How then can any one of us freemen be robbed of liberty and property, and turned into a slave, but by freeman’s proof,--that is, trial by jury?
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Mann argues that the only way a free person can be unjustly enslaved is through a fair trial by jury.
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Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
Behind these forty-one indictments for stealing stand drawn up, in battle array, against this same prisoner, seventy-four other indictments for transporting the very slaves whom he is charged to have stolen.
Under such a practice with regard to indictments, coupled with such a practice in regard to bail, an accusation would be as fatal as crime itself, however innocent the accused might be.
What rights are more sacred or more dear to us than the conjugal and the parental?
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