Charles Sumner: “I am sure that it is unwise for Congress to renounce a duty belonging…”

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I am sure that it is unwise for Congress to renounce a duty belonging to it obviously under the Constitution, and which in former times it exercised.

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Sumner warns against Congress relinquishing its constitutional duties, which it has historically upheld.

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Working-men of Europe, desire abolition of war, XVIII. 236.

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Charles Sumner: “I am sure that it is unwise for Congress to renounce a duty belonging to it obviously under the Constitution, and which…”