The people of any State may at any time meet in Convention, without a law of their Legislature, and without any provision, or against any provision, in their Constitution, and may alter or abolish the whole frame of Government as they please.
Sumner asserts the right of the people to alter their government without legislative approval, emphasizing popular sovereignty.
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Without yielding to any of these extreme views with regard to the mischiefs or the benefits of party, all should agree that the only true and legitimate object of such an association is to uphold, advance, and develop certain principles…
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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