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But Congress, undertaking to support Slavery at the national capital, enacts that persons may be deprived of liberty there without any presentment, indictment, or other judicial proceedings.
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Sumner criticizes Congress for enacting laws that allow for the deprivation of liberty without due process in the context of slavery.
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