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Municipal Law is violated, while International Law, in its most solemn obligation to do unto others as we would have them do unto us, is treated as the merest nullity.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Municipal Law is violated, while International Law, in its most solemn obligation to do unto others as we would have…”
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He critiques the violation of both municipal and international law in the context of the war.
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