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Therefore I dismiss the pretension founded on the power to make regulations, as I dismiss that other founded on the power to determine qualifications.
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Sumner dismisses the notion that regulatory powers can justify disenfranchisement.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
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