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Charles Sumner: “The Constitution has expressly lodged the war-making power in Congress, and, in doing so, seems by implication to have…”

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The Constitution has expressly lodged the war-making power in Congress, and, in doing so, seems by implication to have placed the treaty-abrogating power in the same body; for the latter seems to be an incident of the former.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner asserts that the Constitution places the treaty-abrogating power in Congress by implication, as it does with the war-making power.

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