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It would enable them, in the exercise of a brief and local authority, to draw a fatal circle, within which the Constitution cannot enter,--nay, where the very Bill of Rights becomes a dead letter.
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Sumner argues that local authorities should not be able to create boundaries that exclude constitutional rights.
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