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An amendment, according to the dictionaries, is “an improvement,” “a change for the better.” Surely the present proposition is an amendment which, like the crab, goes backward.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “An amendment, according to the dictionaries, is “an improvement,” “a change for the better.” Surely the present…”
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Sumner argues that the proposed amendment is a regression rather than an improvement.
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