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No one of these States, by anything that it may do hereafter, can escape from that far-reaching power.
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Sumner argues that no state can evade the extensive powers granted to Congress regarding Reconstruction.
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Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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