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Whatever the promptings of the present moment, such an amplification can find no sanction in the National Constitution, or in that Parliamentary Law from which there is no appeal.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Whatever the promptings of the present moment, such an amplification can find no sanction in the National Constitution…”
Editor's note · Context
He argues that amplifying the power of a presiding officer is not sanctioned by the Constitution.
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