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Do I understand my friend as insisting that the denial of the franchise is consistent with a republican government?
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Sumner questions the compatibility of denying voting rights with the principles of republican government.
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Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
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