But you cannot turn from either; and each establishes beyond question the boundaries of national power, making it coextensive with the National Unity and the Equal Rights of All, originally declared and subsequently assured.
Sumner argues that both the Declaration and the Constitution define the limits of national power in relation to unity and rights.
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