The personal and civil rights of the inhabitants of the Territories are secured to them, as to other citizens, by the principles of constitutional liberty which restrain all the agencies of government." (Murphy v.
Reid asserts that the personal and civil rights of territorial inhabitants are protected by constitutional principles.
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