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Charles Sumner: “Not now from the Supreme Court does it come, but from the President.”

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Not now from the Supreme Court does it come, but from the President.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner highlights the source of a controversial decision as coming from the President rather than the Supreme Court.

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