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The power of our Supreme Court is great, and its sphere is vast; but there are limits to its power and its sphere.
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Sumner acknowledges the power of the Supreme Court while asserting that it has limits.
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Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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