Perhaps the expression I have quoted is hardly grave enough in speaking of such a matter, where, in forming the Constitution of a State, military power and injustice to a whole race have been enlisted in defiance of the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence.
Sumner reflects on the grave implications of military power and injustice in the formation of state constitutions, referencing the Declaration of Independence.
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