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But a commissioner is not a judicial tribunal, nor is he in any sense a judge; so that he is not entitled, under the Constitution, to exercise this extraordinary jurisdiction.
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Sumner argues that a commissioner does not have the authority of a judicial tribunal under the Constitution.
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