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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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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “If you repair to the contemporary authorities, including the original debates, you will find no such reason…”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner argues that historical records do not support the reasons given for a constitutional clause.
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