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There is but one active provision in the Constitution which treats the States as equal, and this provision shows how this very Equality may be waived.
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Sumner identifies a specific constitutional provision that addresses state equality and its limitations.
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It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
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