Charles Sumner: “A constitution which disfranchises more than one quarter of its…”

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A constitution which disfranchises more than one quarter of its population republican in form!

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Massachusetts

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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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Charles Sumner: “A constitution which disfranchises more than one quarter of its population republican in form!”