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Charles Sumner: “But it is Liberty now that must have voices everywhere, and the greatest voice of all in the National Constitution and…”

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But it is Liberty now that must have voices everywhere, and the greatest voice of all in the National Constitution and the laws made in pursuance thereof.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that liberty must be represented in the Constitution and laws.

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