A permanent or insurmountable “qualification” is equivalent to deprivation of suffrage; in other words, it is the tyranny of taxation without representation, and this tyranny, I insist, is not intrusted to any State.
Sumner equates permanent qualifications for voting to a denial of suffrage, likening it to taxation without representation.
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