Charles Sumner: “Therefore I submit that the resolution, if not positively…”

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Therefore I submit that the resolution, if not positively unconstitutional, is contrary to the spirit of that instrument.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner critiques a resolution for potentially being unconstitutional or contrary to the spirit of the Constitution.

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