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And then again, where the reason of a law ceases, the law itself ceases.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “And then again, where the reason of a law ceases, the law itself ceases.”
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Sumner asserts that laws lose their validity when their rationale is no longer applicable.
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