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They claim to take with them the right to condemn as a felon the man who may utter and maintain the Declaration of Independence, or the opinions of the conscript fathers of the Republic.
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Tompkins argues against the criminalization of dissenting opinions related to foundational American principles.
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If slave labor, then, is profitable, slaveholding is equitable.
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