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Congress may “enforce” abolition, and nobody can question the “means” it thinks best to employ.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Congress may “enforce” abolition, and nobody can question the “means” it thinks best to employ.”
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Sumner asserts that Congress has the authority to determine the means of enforcing abolition.
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