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If the President, disregarding the pretension of State Rights, can appoint military governors within the Rebel States to serve a temporary purpose, who can doubt that Congress can exercise a similar jurisdiction?
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Sumner asserts that Congress has the authority to appoint military governors in the same way the President does.
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