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Such an exercise of discretion must be unreasonable, and therefore illegal.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Such an exercise of discretion must be unreasonable, and therefore illegal.”
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Sumner declares that unreasonable discretion exercised by authorities is illegal.
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