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http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/526/pg526.html
You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appalls me. There is a taint of death, a flavor of mortality in lies,—which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world—what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do. Temperament, I suppose.
It occurs to me to write a comment finding its way to me while reading Heart of Darkness, and glancing back over to one of the 13 original American Constitutions.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/nc07.asp
"VIII. That no freeman shall be put to answer any criminal charge, but by indictment, presentment, or impeachment"
How does one tell another one is a freeman?
My thought was: The freeman will defend the innocent.