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In this country the power to imprison is either incidental to or expressly conferred upon all our legislative assemblies; and in some of the States it is also regulated by express constitutional provision.
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Sumner explains that the power to imprison is either inherent or explicitly granted to legislative assemblies in the U.S.
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