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Repeatedly I said that in my judgment the Declaration of Independence was not a grant of power, but coëqual with the Constitution,--the one being a grant of power, and the other a sovereign rule of interpretation.
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Sumner clarifies his view that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution serve different roles in governance.
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