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Horace Mann: “While such, he is entitled to every security which the constitution gives to a free man.”

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While such, he is entitled to every security which the constitution gives to a free man.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann argues that individuals presumed free are entitled to all constitutional protections afforded to free men.

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