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Strange will it be, if this extraordinary power, amply conceded to the President, is denied to Congress.
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Sumner warns against the concentration of power in the hands of Congress versus the President.
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According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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