Charles Sumner: “No local claim of self-government can for a moment interfere with the…”

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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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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that local self-governance must not undermine national supremacy in protecting human rights.

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