The first proceedings of Michigan were without any previous enabling Act of Congress; and she presented herself at your door with a Constitution thus formed, and with Senators chosen under that Constitution, precisely as Kansas does.
Sumner compares Michigan's admission process to Kansas's, emphasizing the lack of a prior enabling Act.
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