The National Constitution was not so absurd, nor have our courts been so absurd in its interpretation, as to recognize a power in the custom-house merely at the door of the granite structure, and to require that it shall stop there.
Sumner argues that the interpretation of the National Constitution should not limit the power of the custom-house to just the entrance of a building.
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