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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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Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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