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Charles Sumner: “Undertaking to limit the Rights of War by the Constitution, where are you to stop?”

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Undertaking to limit the Rights of War by the Constitution, where are you to stop?
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner questions the feasibility of imposing constitutional limits on the Rights of War.

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