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Charles Sumner: “But there cannot be one law for the country and another for Boston.”

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But there cannot be one law for the country and another for Boston.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner insists that laws must be uniformly applied across different regions, including Boston.

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