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A committee organized to sustain the negative is the very committee described as a nurse that cares not for the child, and therefore is a committee not tolerated by Parliamentary Law.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “A committee organized to sustain the negative is the very committee described as a nurse that cares not for the child…”
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Sumner critiques the formation of committees that do not support the propositions they are meant to evaluate.
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