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Equal rights of, to be protected by national courts, XIII. 16.
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Sumner asserts that national courts should protect the equal rights of all individuals.
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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.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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