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Show me any words in the Constitution applicable to human rights, and I invoke at once the great truths of the Declaration as the absolute guide to their meaning.
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Sumner calls for the interpretation of the Constitution to be guided by the truths of the Declaration of Independence.
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Sovereignty of, belongs to the people, XVI. 28.
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