Charles Sumner: “I insist that the Declaration is of equal and coördinate authority…”

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I insist that the Declaration is of equal and coördinate authority with the Constitution itself.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts the equal authority of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution in matters of law.

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Charles Sumner: “I insist that the Declaration is of equal and coördinate authority with the Constitution itself.”