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Thousands of human beings are not to be robbed of all their dearest rights, and they and their children, forever, by strained constitutions, or apocryphal authority, doomed to bondage.
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Mann passionately defends the rights of individuals against unjust constitutional interpretations that could lead to slavery.
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