Charles Sumner: “Cultured in law, and with aptitude sharpened by its contests, too…”

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Cultured in law, and with aptitude sharpened by its contests, too easily he finds a legal reason for an illegal judgment.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner critiques the tendency of lawyers to rationalize unjust decisions through legal reasoning.

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