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The Constitution, like the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes, embraces all alike within its mandates and all alike within its promises.
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Sumner compares the Constitution to sacred texts, emphasizing its universal promises and mandates.
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Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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