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Let the people change, and the Constitution will change also; for the Constitution is but the shadow, while the people are the substance.
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Sumner believes that as society evolves, so too will the interpretation of the Constitution.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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