Charles Sumner: “It was assumed, that, under the Constitution, a State was privileged…”

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It was assumed, that, under the Constitution, a State was privileged at any time, in the exercise of its own discretion, to withdraw from the Union.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner critiques the belief that states could unilaterally leave the Union under the Constitution.

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Charles Sumner: “It was assumed, that, under the Constitution, a State was privileged at any time, in the exercise of its own discretion…”