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Nobody here makes this law,--not the Senate, not Congress.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Nobody here makes this law,--not the Senate, not Congress.”
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Sumner asserts that laws are not created by human institutions but are derived from a higher moral authority.
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