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The constitution of the United States, and the law of 1793, being at an end, the law of nature revives.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “The constitution of the United States, and the law of 1793, being at an end, the law of nature revives.”
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Mann argues that natural law supersedes man-made law when the Constitution is deemed void.
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