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If this is not the abrogation of a treaty, I do not see what can be.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “If this is not the abrogation of a treaty, I do not see what can be.”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner questions the definition of treaty abrogation, asserting that certain actions clearly constitute it.
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