Louis the Fourteenth, in the pride of conscious power, exclaimed, “I am the State”; and permit me to say, that our own Executive, undertaking to act in this matter without the sanction of Congress, effectively makes the same declaration.
In this statement, Sumner draws a parallel between the French monarch's assertion of power and the actions of the American Executive.
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