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Their rights are found in Equality before the Law; nor can they be called to renounce one jot of this.
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Sumner emphasizes that the rights of individuals are rooted in equality before the law, which cannot be compromised.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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