It is clear that the judicial department is authorized to exercise jurisdiction to the full extent of the constitution, laws, and treaties of the United States, whenever any question respecting them shall assume such a form that the judicial power is capable of acting upon it.
Mann asserts the authority of the judicial department to act on constitutional matters.
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So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
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