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The medicine of the Constitution must not become its daily bread.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “The medicine of the Constitution must not become its daily bread.”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner uses a metaphor to argue against the frequent use of constitutional remedies.
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