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Charles Sumner: “Mixed courts are familiar to International Law, and our country cannot afford to reject them, least of all on a…”

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Mixed courts are familiar to International Law, and our country cannot afford to reject them, least of all on a discarded technicality which would leave us isolated among nations.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner defends the use of mixed courts in international law, stating that rejecting them would isolate the country.

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