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How, then, can any man, in the name of Popular Sovereignty, vote another to be a slave?
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “How, then, can any man, in the name of Popular Sovereignty, vote another to be a slave?”
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Sumner questions the morality of voting to enslave another person under the guise of popular sovereignty.
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