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But the Senator must see that in the case he puts, the proposed law would be the very thing prohibited by the Constitution.
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Sumner argues that the proposed law would violate the Constitution's prohibition against establishing religion.
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Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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