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If the language of the Constitution were open to doubt, which it is not, still all the presumptions of law, all the leanings to Freedom, all the suggestions of justice, plead angel-tongued for this right.
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Sumner asserts that even if the Constitution's language were ambiguous, justice and freedom would still advocate for the right in question.
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