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It is but an appeal to the lower rule of action to justify a violation of the higher.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “It is but an appeal to the lower rule of action to justify a violation of the higher.”
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Mann argues that justifying lower actions to violate higher principles is fundamentally flawed.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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.
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
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