This greatest victory was the establishment of a new rule of interpretation by which the institutions of our country are dedicated forevermore to Human Rights, and the Declaration of Independence is made a living letter instead of a promise.
Sumner celebrates the establishment of a new interpretation of the Constitution that prioritizes human rights over previous injustices.
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They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
By Perpetual Peace Kant understood a condition of nations where there could be no fear of War; and this condition, he said, was demanded by reason, which, abhorring all War, as little adapted to establish right, must regard this final…
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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