Charles Sumner: “If you ask for authority under the Constitution, I cannot doubt that…”

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If you ask for authority under the Constitution, I cannot doubt that it is in the War Power.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that the authority to act against rebellion is found within the War Power of the Constitution.

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Charles Sumner: “If you ask for authority under the Constitution, I cannot doubt that it is in the War Power.”