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We have read of an effort to extract sunbeams out of cucumbers; but the present effort to extract a cruel prerogative out of the simple words of the Constitution is scarcely less absurd.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “We have read of an effort to extract sunbeams out of cucumbers; but the present effort to extract a cruel prerogative…”
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Sumner critiques the attempt to derive unjust powers from the Constitution as being nonsensical.
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