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If the bill conferring these rights can pass, so also can the present measure.
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Sumner argues that if one bill can confer rights, so can another, emphasizing the importance of asserting rights.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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