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If you repair to the contemporary authorities, including the original debates, you will find no such reason assigned,--nothing like it,--not even any suggestion of it.
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Sumner argues that historical records do not support the reasons given for a constitutional clause.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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