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Therefore, I say confidently, it is not according to “the principles of the Declaration of Independence.” Is this doubted?
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Sumner asserts that the principles of the Declaration of Independence must guide constitutional interpretation.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
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