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Whether regarded as rule or maxim or provision of the Constitution, it is without foundation, and sooner or later will be classed with those “vulgar errors” which are as disturbing in government as in science.
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Sumner dismisses the idea that the Post-Office's funding should be treated differently than other government branches.
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