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By the Constitutional Amendment abolishing Slavery Congress is empowered “to enforce this article by appropriate legislation”; and in pursuance thereof the Civil Rights Law was enacted.
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Sumner explains the constitutional basis for the Civil Rights Law as a response to the abolition of slavery.
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