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Because it is a law which wars against the fundamental principles of human liberty.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Because it is a law which wars against the fundamental principles of human liberty.”
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Mann asserts that the law in question fundamentally opposes human liberty.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
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.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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