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A constitution which disfranchises more than one quarter of its population republican in form!
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Sumner criticizes the notion that a constitution which disenfranchises a large portion of the population can be considered republican.
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It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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