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But the power to protract the imprisonment of a citizen must be kindred with that to imprison.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “But the power to protract the imprisonment of a citizen must be kindred with that to imprison.”
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Sumner argues that the authority to imprison a citizen is inherently linked to the authority to detain them.
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