A venerable statesman, eminent in the profession, once rebuked me for the term Equality before the Law, which I had taken from the French, as expressing more precisely than the Declaration of Independence that equality in rights which is all that constitutions or laws can secure.
Sumner discusses the concept of 'Equality before the Law' and its significance in legal discourse.
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