Charles Sumner: “Let her offer to the world a Magna Charta of International Law, by…”

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Let her offer to the world a Magna Charta of International Law, by which the crime of War shall be forever abolished.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner proposes that the republic should create a foundational international law to abolish war.

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Charles Sumner: “Let her offer to the world a Magna Charta of International Law, by which the crime of War shall be forever abolished.”