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This great power was not handed over indefinitely to the President, to be wielded at will, but was lodged in Congress.
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Sumner argues that the power to declare war should not be given indefinitely to the President but should remain with Congress.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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