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Surely a power to disfranchise for color must find some sanction in the Constitution.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Surely a power to disfranchise for color must find some sanction in the Constitution.”
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Sumner challenges the notion that the Constitution allows for disenfranchisement based on color.
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