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I content myself with insisting, that, whatever the constitutional merits of this question, it is no longer expedient that States should be invested with the power.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “I content myself with insisting, that, whatever the constitutional merits of this question, it is no longer expedient…”
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Sumner argues that it is no longer practical for states to have the power to issue currency.
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