If, forgetting the origin of the Republic, you turn away from this principle, then, in the name of human nature, trampled down and oppressed, but aroused to just self-defence, do I plead for the exercise of this power.
Sumner argues for the necessity of defending human rights based on the origins of the Republic.
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