Charles Sumner: “Wherever a favored class appears, whether in one or the other, its…”

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Wherever a favored class appears, whether in one or the other, its republican character ceases.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner argues that the presence of a favored class undermines the republican nature of a government.

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Charles Sumner: “Wherever a favored class appears, whether in one or the other, its republican character ceases.”