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The whole subject is left to stand on a clause which, whatever its meaning otherwise, plainly on its face is only a compact, and not a grant of power.
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Sumner asserts that the relevant constitutional clause is merely a compact, not a grant of power.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
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