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Charles Sumner: “I cannot doubt that the District System, as it is generally called, whereby the representative power will be distributed…”

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I cannot doubt that the District System, as it is generally called, whereby the representative power will be distributed in just proportion, according to the Rule of Three, among the voters of the Commonwealth, is the true system, destined at no distant day to prevail.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner advocates for a District System of representation based on population as the fairest approach.

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