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Senators sometimes complain that great powers are assumed by the President; but, unless I misread this bill, they are about to confer on him powers large, indeed, beyond precedent.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner points out that the proposed bill would grant the President unprecedented powers.

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