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It supplied a touchstone for all wrongs, and elevated the hearts of the people.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “It supplied a touchstone for all wrongs, and elevated the hearts of the people.”
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Sumner asserts that the principles of liberty serve as a standard for justice and inspire the populace.
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Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
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