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I now come to a position in the commissioner’s argument which is not only transparently fallacious, but is contradicted by himself, in the same opinion, again and again.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann critiques a fallacious position in the commissioner's argument regarding judicial power.

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