Charles Sumner: “But these two rules make it impossible to torture the clause into any…”

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But these two rules make it impossible to torture the clause into any odious or tyrannical signification.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that certain interpretive rules prevent the Constitution from being twisted to support tyranny.

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Charles Sumner: “But these two rules make it impossible to torture the clause into any odious or tyrannical signification.”