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Where is your law which says that the mean, the low, and the degraded, shall be deprived of the right of petition, if their moral character is not good?
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gutenberg.orgJosiah Quincy: “Where is your law which says that the mean, the low, and the degraded, shall be deprived of the right of petition, if…”
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Quincy challenges the notion that moral character should determine the right to petition.
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