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And yet a commissioner, dressed in the smallest and briefest authority, is put forward to determine this great case under the Constitution, and his judgment is declared final, and even without appeal.
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Sumner critiques the practice of allowing a commissioner to make final judgments in significant constitutional cases without appeal.
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