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However, I was trying to show that pioneer lawyers were forced to do their own reasoning, to rely upon their own intellectual powers.
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Orange Jacobs
Republican · Washington

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Jacobs highlights the necessity for pioneer lawyers to rely on their reasoning abilities.

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