Charles Sumner: “I have not taken an oath to support the Constitution as the Senator…”

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I have not taken an oath to support the Constitution as the Senator from Wisconsin understands it, without its animating soul.

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Massachusetts

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Here, Sumner asserts that he does not subscribe to a version of the Constitution that lacks moral substance, as interpreted by another senator.

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Charles Sumner: “I have not taken an oath to support the Constitution as the Senator from Wisconsin understands it, without its animating…”