Here was a great question of justice, appealing to the highest sentiments, and involving the best interests of the country; but lawyers, instinctive for the dialectics of the profession, forgot everlasting truth, never to be forgotten with impunity.
Sumner highlights the conflict between legal technicalities and the pursuit of justice in significant matters.
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Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.
The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.
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