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And yet by this bill One Man, in his discretion, may do little short of declaring war.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “And yet by this bill One Man, in his discretion, may do little short of declaring war.”
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Here, Sumner critiques a bill that grants excessive war powers to a single individual.
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