The judgments of courts, the arguments of Senators, with all possible learning and all possible skill, are impotent against that prevailing law which places the National Unity and the Equal Rights of All beneath the safeguard of the Nation.
He argues that legal judgments and political arguments are powerless against the fundamental laws of national unity and equal rights.
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