If the Senate can summon witnesses to its bar, and compel them to testify, under pains and penalties, it must be by virtue of powers delegated in the Constitution,--I do not say by express grant, but at least by positive intendment.
Sumner argues that the Senate's power to summon witnesses derives from the Constitution, even if not explicitly stated.
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