Finally, Sir, for the sake of peace and tranquillity, cease to shock the Public Conscience; for the sake of the Constitution, cease to exercise a power nowhere granted, and which violates inviolable rights expressly secured.
Sumner calls for an end to actions that violate constitutional rights.
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Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.
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