The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
Meaning of the quote
The quote means that no law can take away a person's freedom, because every human being has the natural right to be free. The Creator (God) has given this right to everyone, and no other law, like one that says a person can be owned as property, can take that away.
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