Charles Sumner: “Plainly there has been no compliance with the Enabling Act, so far as…”

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Plainly there has been no compliance with the Enabling Act, so far as it prescribes the proceedings for the formation of a constitution.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner points out the failure to comply with the Enabling Act regarding constitutional formation.

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