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To conciliate the claim of the individual citizen to the enjoyment of personal liberty, with the effective obligation of private contracts, is the difficult problem to be solved by a law of bankruptcy.
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Adams discusses the complex balance between personal liberty and contractual obligations in bankruptcy law.
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