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Each branch of the Government must interpret the Constitution for itself, according to its own sense of obligation under the oath we have all taken.
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Sumner emphasizes that each branch of government has the responsibility to interpret the Constitution based on its own understanding.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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