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You may refuse to exercise one or both; but you cannot insist upon one, under the Constitution, and reject the other.
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Sumner asserts that one cannot selectively accept or reject powers granted by the Constitution.
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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.
Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
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