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The nation has undertaken to regulate the testimony, not only in its own Courts but in State Courts; and will any one pretend that it may not regulate the jury in State Courts, when it may regulate the testimony in State Courts?
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner argues about the federal government's authority to regulate jury selection in state courts.

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