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Even if paper were less permanent than parchment, the latter becomes entirely superfluous since the practice was established of printing the statutes under the supervision of the Government.
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner claims that the permanence of paper makes parchment unnecessary for legal documents.
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