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The Congress, the Executive, and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “The Congress, the Executive, and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution.”
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Sumner asserts that each branch of government must interpret the Constitution independently.
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