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The conferment of such authority would be in the line of that sound morality which shrinks from affording secure asylum to the author of a heinous crime.
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gutenberg.orgWilliam McKinley: “The conferment of such authority would be in the line of that sound morality which shrinks from affording secure asylum…”
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McKinley emphasizes the moral responsibility of not providing asylum to criminals.
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