On the record
What was the liberty of an American citizen compared with the Presidential prerogative?
Source
gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “What was the liberty of an American citizen compared with the Presidential prerogative?”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner questions the value of individual liberty in the face of presidential power.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.
Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.
Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.
Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
Other voices in this conversation
