Charles Sumner: “Where the conflict is open, as if Congress should command the…”

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Where the conflict is open, as if Congress should command the perpetration of murder, the office of conscience as final arbiter is undisputed.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner discusses the role of conscience as a guiding principle in moral conflicts, particularly when laws are unjust.

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Charles Sumner: “Where the conflict is open, as if Congress should command the perpetration of murder, the office of conscience as final…”