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Considered in these aspects and with these qualifications, these bills are only an agency in the prosecution of the war, and the power to enact them is as clear as the power to raise armies or to levy taxes.
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Sumner discusses the constitutional authority to enact war-related legislation, likening it to the powers to raise armies and levy taxes.
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