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It would degrade our proud Constitutional Republic, where each department has its appointed place, to one of those short-lived, vulgar despotisms appearing occasionally as a warning to mankind.
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Sumner expresses concern that such pretensions would degrade the constitutional republic into a temporary and vulgar despotism.
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