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Other clauses are important in the machinery of government; but this guaranty makes the Republic one and indivisible, being One out of Many, and places the rights of all under the protecting power of the nation.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Other clauses are important in the machinery of government; but this guaranty makes the Republic one and indivisible…”
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Sumner argues that a particular constitutional guaranty is essential for the unity of the Republic.
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