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Is it not most clear that this assumes the very question in dispute, whether the law on which the certificate is founded be constitutional or not?
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Is it not most clear that this assumes the very question in dispute, whether the law on which the certificate is founded…”
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Mann highlights the assumption of constitutionality in legal arguments surrounding the law.
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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.
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.
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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