In one word, the Declaration of Independence must be recognized as a fundamental law, and State Rights, in all their denationalizing pretensions, must be trampled out forever, to the end that we may be, in reality as in name, a Nation.
Sumner insists on recognizing the Declaration of Independence as a fundamental law to unify the nation.
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