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Once Slavery was the animating principle in determining the meaning of the National Constitution: happily, it is so no longer.
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Sumner reflects on the historical shift in the interpretation of the National Constitution away from slavery.
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Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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