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The Constitution contains no power to make a king, or to support kingly rule.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “The Constitution contains no power to make a king, or to support kingly rule.”
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Sumner asserts that the Constitution does not grant authority to establish a monarchy.
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