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Now, without stopping to consider the soundness of the judgment affirming the constitutionality of this Act, let me say that the Constitution, as I understand it, exacts no such passive obedience.
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Sumner asserts that the Constitution does not require passive obedience to unjust laws, challenging the Supreme Court's judgment.
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