Those who give to others such rights perform acts that are void as they are given.… Those who give and those who receive arbitrary power are alike criminal, and there is no man but is bound to resist it to the best of his power, wherever it shall show its face to the world.
Sumner condemns both those who grant and those who accept arbitrary power as equally culpable.
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