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No local claim of self-government can for a moment interfere with the supremacy of the Nation, in the maintenance of Human Rights.
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Sumner asserts that local self-governance must not undermine national supremacy in protecting human rights.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
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