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Look at this: Congress determines for the territory the qualifications of electors and elected,--at least in the first instance.
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Mann states that Congress determines the qualifications of electors and elected officials in territories.
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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.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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