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As once the French monarch exclaimed, “The State, it is I!”--so, when we have conferred these powers, one after another, on the President, I think he may make a similar exclamation.
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Sumner compares the accumulation of presidential powers to a famous quote by a French monarch, emphasizing the dangers of such concentration of authority.
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