Political Quotes

Charles Sumner: “But State Rights are as much disturbed by a military government as by a Congressional government.”

On the record
But State Rights are as much disturbed by a military government as by a Congressional government.
Said by
Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner argues that military governance disrupts State Rights just as much as Congressional governance does.

Share

More from Charles Sumner

Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.

gutenberg.org

Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.

gutenberg.org

Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.

gutenberg.org

Other voices in this conversation