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Then it is permitted on the simple ground that so much of the common law as secures liberty and property, the right of habeas corpus and freedom of speech to each individual, has been cut out and cast away.
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Mann critiques the erosion of fundamental rights under the law, linking it to the acceptance of slavery.
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