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Thus setting up the One Man Power as a source of jurisdiction, the President has committed a blunder of Constitutional Law, proceeding from an immense egotism, in which the little pronoun “I” plays a gigantic part.
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Sumner critiques the President's overreach of power and constitutional interpretation.
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