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Senators all about me assume that power; and now I ask the Senator, as a Constitutional lawyer to whom we refer daily, whether, if you can do the one, you cannot do the other?
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Senators all about me assume that power; and now I ask the Senator, as a Constitutional lawyer to whom we refer daily…”
Editor's note · Context
In this rhetorical question, Sumner challenges a colleague to consider the implications of Congress's power regarding civil and political rights, emphasizing the interconnectedness of these rights.
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