On the record
Let this beneficent prohibition once find place in our statute-book, and it will be lasting as the National Constitution itself, to which it will be only a legitimate corollary.
Source
gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Let this beneficent prohibition once find place in our statute-book, and it will be lasting as the National Constitution…”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner believes that once a beneficial law is enacted, it will endure alongside the Constitution itself.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
Working-men of Europe, desire abolition of war, XVIII. 236.
Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.
Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.
Other voices in this conversation
