Charles Sumner: “All these are conditions in the text of the Constitution so plain and…”

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All these are conditions in the text of the Constitution so plain and intelligible as to require no further elucidation.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that the conditions outlined in the Constitution are clear and require no further explanation.

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Charles Sumner: “All these are conditions in the text of the Constitution so plain and intelligible as to require no further elucidation.”