Charles Sumner: “They lay down a rule from which there is no appeal; and this rule is…”

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They lay down a rule from which there is no appeal; and this rule is not merely in the statutes, but in the Constitution.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that the rules regarding loyalty are definitive and rooted in the Constitution.

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Working-men of Europe, desire abolition of war, XVIII. 236.

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Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.

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Charles Sumner: “They lay down a rule from which there is no appeal; and this rule is not merely in the statutes, but in the…”