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Charles Sumner: “It is, then, on the statute alone, and nothing else, that any question can arise.”

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It is, then, on the statute alone, and nothing else, that any question can arise.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner asserts that the statute is the sole basis for any arising questions.

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