Charles Sumner: “I return to the point, that what it is proposed to prohibit by these…”

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I return to the point, that what it is proposed to prohibit by these fundamental conditions no State can of right do.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner argues that states do not have the right to prohibit certain fundamental conditions.

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Charles Sumner: “I return to the point, that what it is proposed to prohibit by these fundamental conditions no State can of right do.”