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To such, indeed, time-honored safeguards of popular rights can be a name and nothing more.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “To such, indeed, time-honored safeguards of popular rights can be a name and nothing more.”
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Sumner argues that traditional protections of rights mean nothing to those who undermine them.
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