Charles Sumner: “I doubt whether such an assumption can stand an argument in this…”

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I doubt whether such an assumption can stand an argument in this Chamber; I doubt whether it can stand a discussion before a court of justice.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner doubts the validity of certain assumptions regarding the Senate's powers in legal discussions.

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Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.

Working-men of Europe, desire abolition of war, XVIII. 236.

Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.

His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.

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Charles Sumner: “I doubt whether such an assumption can stand an argument in this Chamber; I doubt whether it can stand a discussion…”