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Why not, then, apply it throughout, so that hereafter there shall be no question?
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Why not, then, apply it throughout, so that hereafter there shall be no question?”
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Sumner questioned why the principle of equal rights should not be applied universally in legislation.
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