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But nothing is clearer than that in this well-considered instrument there is not one clause or word which maintains property in man, not one clause or word on which any such pretension can be founded.
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Sumner asserts that the Constitution does not contain any language that supports the idea of human property, countering pro-slavery arguments.
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