Charles Sumner: “I call it far-reaching: it will reach just as far as the endeavor to…”

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I call it far-reaching: it will reach just as far as the endeavor to counteract it; it is coextensive with the Constitution itself.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner describes the expansive nature of constitutional power as being equal to the efforts to resist it.

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Charles Sumner: “I call it far-reaching: it will reach just as far as the endeavor to counteract it; it is coextensive with the…”