Charles Sumner: “There it stands in the very front of our Great Charter, embodied in two simple, self-evident truths,--first, that all…”

“There it stands in the very front of our Great Charter, embodied in two simple, self-evident truths,--first, that all men are equal in rights, and, secondly, that all just government is founded only on the consent of the governed,--the two together making an axiomatic definition which proves itself.”