If the call of the Convention were not already amply vindicated, if there were doubt anywhere of its expediency, the remarkable concurrence of all sides in condemning the existing representative system shows that we have not come together without cause.
Sumner argues that the widespread condemnation of the existing representative system justifies the Convention's call for reform.
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