Charles Sumner: “The citizen is imprisoned only by the order of the Senate, and the…”

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The citizen is imprisoned only by the order of the Senate, and the power to imprison or to detain expires with the session.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner states that a citizen's imprisonment is contingent upon the Senate's order, which expires with the session.

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