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Even if the judiciary had settled the question, I should never hold myself bound by their decision....
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Sumner declares his independence from judicial decisions, emphasizing personal conviction in constitutional interpretation.
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They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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