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Of course all attempt to enforce this guaranty against an oligarchy, aristocracy, caste, and monopoly founded on color, or against the tyranny of taxation without representation, will be from this time impossible.
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Sumner argues that enforcing constitutional guarantees against oppressive systems will become impossible.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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