Charles Sumner: “You ought not to repeat in the Constitution the tyranny of taxation…”

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You ought not to repeat in the Constitution the tyranny of taxation without representation.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner warns against repeating historical injustices in the Constitution, specifically regarding taxation without representation.

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Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.

Sovereignty of, belongs to the people, XVI. 28.

Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.

His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.

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Charles Sumner: “You ought not to repeat in the Constitution the tyranny of taxation without representation.”