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Lawyers cite what are called “Leading Cases.” A few of these show the Presidential will in constant operation with little regard to precedent or reason, so as to be a caprice, if it were not a pretension.
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Sumner discusses how certain legal cases reflect the arbitrary nature of the President's decisions, likening them to caprice.
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