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His rights would be lost in his enforced disability to defend them.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “His rights would be lost in his enforced disability to defend them.”
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Mann highlights the tragic reality that individuals may lose their rights due to their inability to defend themselves when forcibly incapacitated.
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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.
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.
I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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