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As Congress made a Civil Rights Law, so should it have made a Political Rights Law.
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Sumner argues that just as Congress enacted a Civil Rights Law, it should also create a Political Rights Law.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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