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Charles Sumner: “The Senate also, by express terms of the Constitution, has the power to expel a member.”

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The Senate also, by express terms of the Constitution, has the power to expel a member.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts the Senate's constitutional authority to expel its members.

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