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In saying that he shall “preside” the Constitution confers no powers of membership, and by the well-defined term employed limits him to those precise functions sanctioned at the time by immemorial usage.
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Sumner clarifies that the Constitution limits the Chief Justice's role to specific functions without granting membership powers.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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