Charles Sumner: “All this is now changed, at least among us, and Government is the…”

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All this is now changed, at least among us, and Government is the creation of the people for their good.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that the government should serve the people's interests, contrasting it with past usurpations.

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Charles Sumner: “All this is now changed, at least among us, and Government is the creation of the people for their good.”