On the record
Can a constitution which undertakes to disfranchise a whole race be treated in that effort as only a technicality?
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner questions whether a constitution that disenfranchises an entire race can be considered a mere technicality.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
I am in favor of a tariff for revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of the government, economically administered.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
By Perpetual Peace Kant understood a condition of nations where there could be no fear of War; and this condition, he said, was demanded by reason, which, abhorring all War, as little adapted to establish right, must regard this final…
Other voices in this conversation
