Charles Sumner: “It cannot be invented, imagined, or implied; it must be found in the…”

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It cannot be invented, imagined, or implied; it must be found in the very text: and this I assert according to fixed principles of jurisprudence.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner emphasizes that legal principles must be explicitly stated in texts rather than inferred.

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Charles Sumner: “It cannot be invented, imagined, or implied; it must be found in the very text: and this I assert according to fixed…”