Public policy and the ends of justice require that the punishment for a criminal offence should, in every case, be exclusively subject to the supreme pardoning power, without dependence upon the will of any private person.
Sumner emphasizes the importance of the President's exclusive power to grant pardons in the pursuit of justice.
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