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Josiah Quincy: “The soul of one man cannot by human law be made the property of another.”

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The soul of one man cannot by human law be made the property of another.
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Josiah Quincy
Federalist · Massachusetts

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Quincy asserts that no legal system can justly claim ownership over another person's soul.

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